Cholera hits Iraq hard: 13 confirmed cases, and thousands in hospitals are waiting for diagnosis!

Today, Sunday, Iraqi medical sources announced that 13 people were infected with cholera, 10 of them in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, which has not witnessed the disease for 10 years.

The Ministry of Health spokesman, Dr. Saif Al-Badr, said in a statement: "The Central Public Health Laboratory in the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed the diagnosis of 13 cases of cholera in Iraq."

Ten injuries were recorded in Sulaymaniyah governorate (north), two in Muthanna governorate (south), and one in Kirkuk governorate (north).

For its part, the health of Sulaymaniyah Governorate announced, later, today, Sunday, a state of emergency.

The Director of Sulaymaniyah Health, Sabah Hawrami, said in a press conference that, after confirming the results of the tests in the capital, Baghdad, it was found that the samples sent from Sulaymaniyah were infected with cholera,

Hawrami added that the Iraqi Ministry of Health recommended the health of Sulaymaniyah to declare a state of emergency.

Hawrami pointed out that "about 4,000 cases of diarrhea and vomiting were recorded in Sulaymaniyah hospitals" during the past ten days.

The Ministry of Health in the Kurdistan Region said last Thursday that it would take strict measures to control cases of diarrhea to prevent the outbreak of cholera.

The Iraqi Ministry of Health also announced today, according to the "Al-Hurra" channel, a high number of infections and deaths from hemorrhagic fever, according to the Iraqi News Agency, "conscious."

The ministry's spokesman, Saif Al-Badr, said that "the statistic of hemorrhagic fever infections since the beginning of 2022 has reached 194, including 32 deaths."

The disease, which is also known as "Congo fever", is considered an endemic disease in Iraq, as the first case was diagnosed in the country in 1979, and since that date, infections have been recorded in a number of Iraq's governorates at controlled rates, according to Iraqi Health.

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