Highlights
Number of reporting sites: One hundred and twenty (120) reporting sites including (94% of the total EWARN reporting sites) forty (40) in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, six (6) in refugee camps and seventy-four (74) mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 44 764 (Male= 20 957 and Female= 23 807) marking an increase of (3%) since last week due to increase of the reporting sites by 51%.
Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) (n=17 077), Skin Diseases (n=1 778) and Acute Diarrhea (AD) (n= 1 270) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps during this reporting week.
Number of alerts: Twenty-four(24) alerts were generated through EWARN following the defined thresholds, of which twenty-one (21) were from IDP camps (Nine of them from mobile clinics), one (1) from Refugee camps and the remaining two (2) alerts from hospitals during this reporting week. All these alerts were investigated within 72 hours, of which twenty (20) were verified as true and were further investigated and responded by the respective Governorates Departments of Health, WHO and the relevant health cluster partners. (Details: see Alerts and Outbreaks Section).