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Monday 13 Jul 2015 - 15:16 Makkah mean time-26-9-1436
Khartoum (IINA) – The Sudanese Health Ministry announced that it had raised the level of alert to prevent transmission of cholera to the Sudan’s territories from South Sudan, news agencies reported.
"The Federal Ministry of Health has raised the level of alert in the disease monitoring system and adopted a package of precautionary measures to prevent transmission of cholera from South Sudan to the country's border states," said Somia Idris, state minister of health, in a statement on Sunday.
An emergency room has been established for the Border States to report any suspected watery diarrhea cases, she noted.
She further reiterated the importance of instantly dealing with all reported cases, affirming that no case of acute watery diarrhea has been reported in any of the Border States so far.
Cholera recently killed 29 people in South Sudan which has been suffering from a civil war since December last year.
According to earlier reports, around 484 people in South Sudan have been infected with cholera, including children aged less than five years.
Last June, Sudan received 30,000 South Sudanese refugees, according to UN latest reports. Presently Sudan is hosting 172,000 South Sudanese refugees who have fled the violence in their country.
Fighting erupted in South Sudan between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and defectors led by his former Deputy Riek Machar in December 2013, leaving thousands of South Sudanese dead and forced around 1.9 million people to flee their homes.
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