Water is not safe for drinking water in Sudan in war. But people have no option

Two weeks ago, a human body was removed from a well at a refugee camp in Sudan, according to doctors without borders. Two days later, people were drinking water again.

This is a disturbing illustration of Sudan’s residents’ status of the residents of Sudan, called a project co-ordinator Sylvan Penicaud.

Crowd camps, heavy rains and lack of hygiene supply, the perfect storm for cholera, a painful and deadly water disease, to spread.

“Displaced people are exposed to those types of health problems created by unsafe water,” Penicaud said As it happens Guest host Aarti Pol. “People have no alternative, but get water (these) under such terrible circumstances.”

Hundreds of thousands of migration surrounded the city

Sudan has been in war since April 2023, when a fight took place between Sudani Army and paramilitary rapid support forces in Khartum, the capital of Khartum.

Since then, violence has spread to other parts of the country, causing more than 50,000 people to kill, displaced 12.5 million, and pushed many people to the brink of famine, United nations according to,

These intersection crisis is displayed in Tawila, a small town in the North Darfur state, where the penicaud is working with doctors, working without boundaries to provide health care to hundreds of thousands of internal displaced people.

About 300,000 people have come to Tavila since the onset of the conflict, which has increased the city’s population ten times.

“I think most people cannot imagine what it is for about half a million people at a peak at the same place, originally everything is lacking,” said Penicaud.

Most of the people are taking shelter there, they say, women and children who ran away from the state’s surrounded capital, which is a warm place in the struggle.

“They ran away from a quarrel with almost nothing in their pockets, just some supply, some clothes (and) cooking material, but it’s too much,” Penicad said.

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday reiterated its call for RSF to raise the siege of L-Fasher, while condemning the group’s plan to resume its aggressive in the city and establish a rival government in the areas of Sudan.

The United Nations World Food Program is calling for access to L-Fasher to assist people facing starvation.

“As a copying mechanism, some residents of the region are allegedly alive on animal fodder and food waste,” said Stephen Dusarric.

Canada also joined 29 other countries to call the RSF to eliminate the siege, and to agree to a human stagnation for both sides and “to leave the reserved passage of citizens on voluntary basis, guarantee the direction in which they choose.”

“It can’t continue,” reads statementSigned by Canadian State Secretary, Randeep Sarai for international development.

Cholera vaccine campaign rolled

Meanwhile, Sudani Health Officer is launching a 10-day vaccination campaign for cholera at Khartum.

Resident Montar al-Side said that he and his family returned home after being displaced after fighting recently. He feared cholera in chaotic circumstances, but said that the vaccination campaign assured him.

“As a mother, I was relieved,” another resident, Razaz Abdullah said.

Many cholera vaccine campaigns have been rolled throughout Sudan since then Last year was declared outbreakBut as the war continues, keeping the disease under control is almost impossible.

Bacterial infection spreads through contaminated food and drinking water, causing diarrhea, dehydration – and if left untreated, death.

Doctors estimate without boundaries 99,700 cases of cholera in Sudan And more than 2,470 deaths from July 2024.

In the Darfur region alone, the aid group has treated more than 2,300 cholera patients and has recorded 40 deaths in the last week in the facilities run by the Ministry of Health.

Penicad says that people do not have enough clean water to meet their needs in the camps.

The rainy season, they say, makes floods worse to supply water and damage the sewage system.

Meanwhile, the fight, financial charity and lack of mud, dangerous roads are all difficult to supply to those who need them.

“The situation is extremely important, but even in the case of supply, obstacles are very large,” Penicad said. “It is very difficult for us and other human organizations to increase our operations and provide assistance to such a large number of displaced persons.”

He is calling international donors to step.

Doctors bidout borders estimate that it will require $ 100 million US to plan a sufficient response to Tavila alone. But in July, Penicaud says, the organization raised only five percent of it.

“We know that there is a lot of discussion with different donors to increase the level of reaction,” he said, “but it is actually necessary for operation in Tavila.”