39 patients with poisoning cases leave Al-Mokha hospital after their recovery
English - Wednesday 19 May 2021 الساعة 04:27 pm
Mocha, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
In a rural village north of Mokha, all patients who were exposed to poisoning due to contaminated drinking water left the General Hospital of Mokha today, Wednesday, after they recovered.
Dr. Tariq Al-Marwani, Deputy Director of Al-Mokha General Hospital for Technical Affairs, told NewsYemen that all patients recovered after undergoing treatment within two days, which allowed them to leave.
He added that 39 patients received by Al-Mokha Hospital were allowed to leave at noon on Wednesday, after their health conditions had improved.
He confirmed that the health sector in Mokha, represented by the Director of the Health Bureau and the Director of the Mokha Hospital, made great efforts to prevent deaths from acute poisoning cases, and that they personally supervised the treatment of patients.
Dozens of residents in the village of Shatt in Maamara, in isolation on Friday, north of Mokha, were exposed to cases of diarrhea and high fever, due to contamination of drinking water, on Monday, which prompted the Director of the Health Office to launch a distress call to organizations working in the health field in the West Coast, to help treat the injured due to the seriousness of health The patients had to be, in addition to supplying Mocha hospital with intravenous drugs and fluids.
The humanitarian cell responded to the national resistance to the call by providing medicines and allocating ambulances to transport the injured to the city’s hospitals.
The hospital administration summoned medical teams from health facilities to help treat patients, while the injured, about 60 cases, were distributed to the Maamara Health Center, the field hospital and the Saudi.
In the General Hospital of Mokha, the reception and emergency room was filled with dozens of injured people, on Wednesday morning, while some of them were preparing to leave after their health condition improved.
The Director of the Health Bureau, Dr. Samiha Jamil, said that she had prepared health facilities on Monday to receive the sick cases and that 60 patients had undergone treatment from among the population of the Shatt region, which numbered about 200 families.
She added that new cases of poisoning were recorded, and that two ambulances were sent to the area for treatment, which confirms the need for residents to stop using drinking water from the village project, which is believed to be behind the crime of water pollution that led to the injury of dozens of residents with poisoning cases.
The local authority had formed a team from the Health Office and the forensic laboratory to inspect the well from which the residents supply drinking water and to take a sample for examination, while the people of the Shatt area were waiting for the results to confirm suspicions that people committed the crime.
This is the first time that Mocha hospitals have received this number of people with mass poisoning cases, which are believed to have been orchestrated by unidentified persons putting quantities of poison into drinking water.
Six children died and 13 others were injured due to diarrhea as a result of contamination of drinking water in Al-Ushqa camp in Mawza district at the beginning of this year.
