Highlights
Number of reporting sites: Sixty-eight (69) reporting sites including thirty-eight (38) in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, Six (6) in refugee camps and twenty-five (25) mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 29 153 (Male=13 970 and Female=15 183) marking a decrease of 2 341 (8%) since last week.
Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) (n=13,185), skin diseases (n=944) and Acute Diarrhea (AD) (n=887) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps during this reporting week.
Number of alerts: Eight (8) alerts were generated through EWARN following the defined thresholds, of which five were from IDP camps and three from Refugee camps during this reporting week. All these alerts were investigated within 72 hours, and all were verified as true for further investigation and appropriate response by the respective Governorate Departments of Health, WHO and the relevant health cluster partners. (Details: see Alerts and Outbreaks Section).
Morbidity Patterns
IDP camps:
During week 53, the proportions of Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) are showing a static trend as the previous week, although there is a decrease of reporting sites during this week. During this winter and as from week 51, the trend of the reporting cases of ARI showed overall slight increase, which is expected to increase during the coming weeks in particular during the weeks of January 2016. The proportions of Acute Diarrhea in IDP camps have slightly decreased compared to last week. The proportion of skin diseases including scabies has shown a steady trend since week 23 (6%) due to the health and hygiene sessions in camps by the health cluster partners and Departments of Health.