{"id":435,"date":"2025-05-11T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/?p=435"},"modified":"2025-05-11T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:46:52","slug":"cholera-outbreak-reported-in-heiban-county-thursday-8th-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/news\/cholera-outbreak-reported-in-heiban-county-thursday-8th-may-2025","title":{"rendered":"Cholera Outbreak Reported in Heiban County- Thursday 8th May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been diagnosed with cholera in Ndravi village, Heiban County, located in the Nuba Mountains region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-436\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-436\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-2-hosp-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-2-hosp-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-2-hosp-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-2-hosp-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-2-hosp-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-2-hosp.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother of Mercy hospitals (image courtesy: Abaker, A.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Sister Annita Cecilia, Matron and Nurse at Mother of Mercy Hospital, the first case involved a mother who was quickly followed by two family members showing similar symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital responded immediately to the suspected outbreak, isolating the patients for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>While a child among the patients is reportedly improving, the condition of the mother and her 22-year-old son remains critical.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Annita confirmed that both the hospital\u2019s public health department and the region\u2019s Secretariat of Health were informed. This marks the second cholera outbreak in Heiban County, following the death of a young girl in February at the same hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been diagnosed with cholera in Ndravi village, Heiban County, located in the Nuba Mountains region. According to Sister Annita Cecilia, Matron and Nurse at Mother of Mercy Hospital, the first case involved a mother who was quickly followed by two family members showing similar symptoms. The hospital responded immediately to the suspected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicradionetwork.org\/voiceofpeace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}