Highlights
Number of reporting sites: One hundred and ten (110) reporting sites including (86% of the total EWARN reporting sites) forty-three (43) in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, seven (7) in refugee camps and Sixty (60) mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 40 240 (Male = 19 260 and Female = 20 980) marking an increase of 1 356 (2%) since last week, which may be due to the increase in the reporting sites.
Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) (n = 17 448), Acute Diarrhea (AD) (n = 1 524) and Skin Diseases (n = 1 320) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps during this reporting week.
Number of alerts: Twelve (12) alerts were generated through EWARN following the defined thresholds, of which ten (10) were from IDP camps (one of them from a mobile clinic) and the remaining two from hospitals during this reporting week. All the alerts were investigated within 72 hours and 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).