In Mariupol, captured and completely destroyed by the Russians, the risks of a large -scale outbreak of cholera and other infectious diseases are growing.
Russia has completely destroyed Mariupol, unsanitary conditions reign in the city and outbreaks of infectious diseases are approaching.
Cholera
Cholera is a chronic diarrhea infection that occurs when contaminated food or water is ingested. If left untreated for a few hours, it can lead to death. Worldwide, from 1.3 to 4 million cases of cholera are recorded annually and 21,000 to 143,000 die from it.
The first symptoms of cholera are diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
Cholera cases in Ukraine were registered in 1998, 1999, 2007, 2011.
In 1998, cholera was recorded in the Donetsk region and in the Crimea, in 1999 a significant outbreak spread to some southern and eastern regions of Ukraine, cases were recorded in the regions of Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Odessa.
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The Mariupol City Council, whose representatives are in contact with resources in the occupied city, warned for several weeks that with the arrival of the spring heat, and subsequent summer heat, the contagious The disease can quickly spread to the destroyed Mariupol due to the total unsanitary conditions.
Will there be quarantine?
Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko, told the air of the telethon that the Russian occupation authorities are already beginning to close the city for quarantine, probably because of the first data on the spread of cholera.
“We are monitoring the city closely. In addition, information began to arrive that the Russian side in Rostov-on-Don has prepared separate infectious disease departments, where they are preparing to receive their own military, which could land in “hospital as a result of the epidemic. And the word cholera is heard within the city, in the occupying authorities and their administrators,” he said.
All factors
According to the Mariupol City Council, in early June, several factors in Mariupol could lead to an exploding cholera epidemic:
– centralized water supply and sewerage do not work.
– garbage removal and disposal does not work: the city is literally drowning in garbage and sewage.
– Spontaneous funerals are located in almost every yard.
-the heat of summer accelerated the decay of thousands of corpses under the rubble.
– lack of adequate medical support: no medicines, destroyed medical facilities, removed the most important equipment, left the best doctors.
– the sea and reservoirs continue to be polluted with garbage, sewage and cadaveric poisons.
Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Igor Kuzin explained that the situation with the spread of infectious diseases in Mariupol has become critical due to people’s graves and lack of access to drinking water. “We often receive information about funerals in unauthorized places, it can lead to water pollution, so it is very important for people living in such territories to pay attention to the use of water from wells and water pipe, it must undergo heat treatment, ”he recalled.
From June 1, the Ministry of Health began increasing surveillance of all cases in Ukraine that may be similar to cholera, Kuzin said.
Source: korrespondent
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