{"id":774,"date":"2017-09-13T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/red-cross-cholera-cases-in-yemen-could-hit-850000-this-year\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:37:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:37:03","slug":"red-cross-cholera-cases-in-yemen-could-hit-850000-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/red-cross-cholera-cases-in-yemen-could-hit-850000-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross: Cholera cases in Yemen could hit 850,000 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cholera epidemic tearing through Yemen, exacerbating the already dire humanitarian situation in the war-ravaged country, could impact 850,000 people by the end of the year, the Red Cross warned Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe outbreak “has reached colossal proportions,” said Robert Mardini, the International Committee of the Red Cross’s Near and Middle East director, AFP reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe collapse of Yemen’s infrastructure after more than two years of war.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to reinstate former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement.<\/p>\n

\n\tRiyadh has, however, failed to reach its goals despite suffering great expense.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe speed at which cholera is spreading in Yemen has slowed some in recent months, but the deadly waterborne disease is far from contained.<\/p>\n

\n\t“In July we said we feared it would reach 600,000 cases by the end of the year. Now we have reached 647,000 suspected cases already,” Mardini told AFP.<\/p>\n

\n\t“We are now projecting in the worst-case scenario to reach 850,000 by the end of the year,” he said, stressing that “it is not under control. It is not contained.”<\/p>\n

\n\tThe World Health Organization said earlier this week that 2,065 people had so far perished from the disease.<\/p>\n

\n\t“The pace was slowing down a bit, but over the past week it went up again,” Mardini said, pointing out that there are still around 4,700 suspected cases being registered in the country every day.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe numbers are all the more tragic in light of the fact that cholera is usually an easily preventable disease.<\/p>\n

\n\t“It is the worst health crisis for a preventable disease in modern times,” Mardini told a conference on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n

\n\tWHO has warned that the disease has spread rapidly due to deteriorating hygiene and sanitation conditions, with millions of people cut off from clean water across the country.<\/p>\n

\n\tLess than half of health facilities in the country are functioning, many health workers have not received salaries for nearly a year, and less than 30 percent of the medicines needed in Yemen are reaching the country, Mardini said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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