Overview this week
Number of reporting sites: Sixty (60) reporting sites includes forty one Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, eight refugee camps and ten mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 16,730 (male=7,855 and female=8,873) marking an increase of 599 (2%) since last week.
Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute Respiratory tract Infections (ARI) (n=5,611), Acute Diarrhea (AD) (n=1,620) and skin diseases (n=574) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps this reporting week.
Number of alerts: Twenty Four (24) alerts were generated, of which twenty one were from IDP camps and three from refugee camps. Ten of these alerts were verified as true for further investigation and appropriate response by the respective Governorate Department of Health, WHO and the relevant health cluster partner. Fourteen alerts did not follow the case definition thresholds. (Details: see Alert and Outbreak Section)