[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Typhoid fever cases has increased recently in Southern Damascus region especially with summer season and hot weather.Dr. Abdul Rahman in Yarmouk Camp for Paleostinian refugees told Zaman al-Wasl they had hundreds of confirmed Typhoid cases last July.
The General Medical body in Southern Damascus had a week ago issued an appeal to warn from the disease.
The body confirmed 5844 cases of Typhoid, 938 of them in July only.
The Medical Body described the disease elevation as "worrying and scary". The statement held the siege responsibility for that as the Syrian regime prevented any medication from getting inside the camp.
The main reason according to Dr. Abdul Rahman is lack of clean water leading to less hygiene besides the high temperature and unavailability of medication and antibiotics because of the siege.
Hepatitis A had before spread for the same reasons
Dr. Abdul Rahman mentioned that 35% of people in Yarmouk camp had fever of many reasons during the last two months, especially among children, he warned of increasing these diseases and infections to epidemic levels and demanded the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
and the Paleostinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) to interfere to let in medications and antibiotics yarmouk camp to stop spreading of disease.
Yarmouk camp has witnessed lack of clean drinking water for more than a year because of cutting water supply by the Syrian regime as people have to drink water from wells' water instead.
Escaping of medical staff from Yarmouk camp towards other areas especially those had truce with the regime camp has exacerbated the crisis, especially after invading the camp by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS), as less than 5 doctors has stayed in the camp with small number of nurses and paramedics. The camp suffers of severe scarceness of medical equipment and tools as well.