Medical reports indicate that children are more exposed to cholera than adults, calling for children caretakers to step up extra measures to safeguard them.
CRN Yanta Daniel Elisha tours Medicine Sans Fronti√®res or MSF Munuki Block ‘A’ Cholera Treatment Centre in Juba to investigate why children rank number one on cholera scourge and compiles the following report:
Touring MSF tent sheltered Cholera Treatment Centre about 300 kilometres west of its signpost alongside Bilpam Road in Juba on Tuesday; I had to wash hands several times with chlorinated water, had my shoes sprayed with chemicals before and after visiting children dominated patients.
I ask MSF Deputy Medical Coordinator Dr Winston Mulanda why children are more cholera victims than adults and he says children are more exposed to hygienic hazards due to lack of awareness on frequent hand washing and eating safe food for prevention.
A mother identified as Monica Samuel attending a child at Munuki Cholera Treatment Centre says her child seems to have contracted the disease from dirty water as she realizes it passing watery stool and vomiting last Sunday.
MSF Doctor Rose Ansorge is in charge of Munuki Cholera Treatment Centre; she explains that cholera patients lose a lot of water from the body and so the medics are rehydrating them orally or through vein injection.
The MSF doctor says they are happy to see patients recovering in short time and going home well without mortality case at the centre.
Dr Ansorge urges the public to rush any suspected cholera case for free treatment at Munuki Block ‘A’ Centre equipped health professionals tackling the cholera outbreak.
The medical sources say in Juba County alone, so far cholera cases have reached over one thousand and that spread seems to be falling. Yanta Daniel Elisha for CRN news in Juba.