Diarrhea Outbreak kills Women & children in Gedo

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Reports reaching us from Gedo region indicate that at least 10 people mostly underage children have been admitted at Beled-Hawo town hospital after outbreak of diarrhea, sources said on Thursday.

Dozens of other children were admitted in Beled-Hawo for the cholera, with the number of the effected people is increasing day after day, according to medics.

Reports say most of the hospitalized people came from the remote rural areas located in the outskirts of Beled-Hawo town, which lies near  the Somalia border with Kenya.

Women are said to be among those killed by the Diarrhea outbreak in Gedo region of south-western Somalia.  The outbreak is directly linked to the poor sanitation and hygiene conditions in countryside villages.

Meanwhile, the local authorities said they are conducting thorough investigations on the causes of the cholera outbreak, though this time is Go’ rainy season.