Highlights
Number of reporting sites: One hundred and fourteen (114) reporting sites (88% of the total EWARN reporting sites) including forty-five (45) in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, seven (7) in refugee camps and sixty-two (62) mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 43 029 (Male=20 759 and Female=22 270) marking an increase of 10 301 (24%) since last week due to 11% increase of reporting sites. Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) (n=19 606), Skin Diseases (n=1 386) and Acute Diarrhea (AD) (n=1 070) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps during this reporting week.
Number of alerts: Eighteen(18) alerts were generated through EWARN following the defined thresholds, of which sixteen (16) were from IDP camps (six of them from mobile clinics) and the remaining two (2) from Refugee camps during this reporting week. All these alerts were investigated within 72 hours, of which fifteen were verified as true and were further investigated and appropriately responded by the respective Governorates Departments of Health, WHO and the relevant health cluster partners. (Details: see Alerts and Outbreaks Section).