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22 Jan Cholera outbreak reported in Kachin refugee camp
Written by Phanidar Published in Myanmar
Emergency supplies of medicine are needed for an outbreak of cholera in a camp housing civilians displaced by conflict in Kachin State?s Mansi Township, a health care worker has told Mizzima.
The medical in-charge of the Mine Khaung refugee camp, La Htaw Naw Lai, said on January 20 that more than 50 children had been diagnosed with cholera at the start of the month, but the number with the disease had since declined.
Medicine was also needed to treat an outbreak of colds in the camp, La Htaw Naw Lai said.
?We are having problems because we are running out of medicine in the camp,? he said...
22 Jan Cholera outbreak reported in Kachin refugee camp
Written by Phanidar Published in Myanmar
Emergency supplies of medicine are needed for an outbreak of cholera in a camp housing civilians displaced by conflict in Kachin State?s Mansi Township, a health care worker has told Mizzima.
The medical in-charge of the Mine Khaung refugee camp, La Htaw Naw Lai, said on January 20 that more than 50 children had been diagnosed with cholera at the start of the month, but the number with the disease had since declined.
Medicine was also needed to treat an outbreak of colds in the camp, La Htaw Naw Lai said.
?We are having problems because we are running out of medicine in the camp,? he said...