Highlights
Number of reporting sites: Ninety-nine (99) reporting sites including (77% of the total EWARN reporting sites) forty-one(41) in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, five (5) in refugee camps and fifty-three (53) mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 38 853 (Male = 18 420 and Female = 20 433) marking a decrease of 2 430 (3%) since last week that may be due to the decrease of the reporting sites.
Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) (n=16,932), Skin Diseases (n = 1 320) and Acute Diarrhea (AD) (n = 1 176) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps during this reporting week.
Number of alerts: Thirteen (13) alerts were generated through EWARN following the defined thresholds, of which twelve (12) were from IDP camps ( two of them from mobile clinics) and the remaining one from hospitals during this reporting week. All these alerts were investigated within 72 hours, of which twelve were verified as true; they 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).