Highlights
Number of reporting sites: One-hundred and ten (110) reporting sites including (82% of the total EWARN reporting sites), sixty (60) in internally displaced people’s (IDP) camps, five (5) in refugee camps and fortyfive(45) in mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 32 698 (Male=15 275 and Female=17 423), marking a decrease of 2 663 since last week.
Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARI) (n=11 262), acute diarrhea (AD) (n=2 938) and skin diseases (n=1 067) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps and displaced population areas served by mobile clinics during this reporting week.
Number of alerts: Five (5) alerts were generated through EWARN, four of them were from IDPs camps and one from refugee camp during this reporting week. Alerts were investigated within 72 hours, of which four were verified as true; they were further investigated and responded by the relevant health cluster partners. (Details: see Alerts and Outbreaks Section).