Highlights
Number of reporting sites: One hundred and eleven (111) reporting sites including (87% of the total EWARN reporting sites) forty-seven (47) in Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, seven (7) in refugee camps and fifty-seven (57) mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 41 294 (Male = 19 095 and Female = 22 199) marking an increase of 7 059 (9%) since last week due to the increase of reporting sites.
Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) (n=17,925), Skin Diseases (n = 1 239) and Acute Diarrhea (AD) (n = 1 391) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps during this reporting week.
Number of alerts: Fifteen (15) alerts were generated through EWARN following the defined thresholds, all fifteen (15) alerts were from IDP camps ( five of them from mobile clinics) during this reporting week. All these alerts were investigated within 72 hours and thirteen were verified as true and further investigated and responded by the respective Governorates Departments of Health, WHO and the relevant health cluster partners. (Details: see Alerts and Outbreaks Section).