Highlights
Number of reporting sites: Fifty six (56) reporting sites which include thirty-six Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps, eight refugee camps and twelve mobile clinics submitted their weekly reports timely and completely.
Total number of consultations: 15,469 (male=7,545 and female=7,924) making a decrease of 1261 (8%) since last week.
Leading causes of morbidity in the camps: Acute Respiratory tract Infections (ARI) (n=5,337), Acute Diarrhea (AD) (n=1,533) and skin diseases (n=907) remained the leading causes of morbidity in all camps during the reporting week.
Number of alerts: Thirty (30) alerts were generated, of which nineteen were from IDP camps and eleven from refugee camps. Four of these alerts were verified as true for further investigation and appropriate response by the Governorates Departments of Health, WHO and the relevant health cluster partners. The rest twenty six alerts did not follow the case definition thresholds. (Details: see Alert and Outbreak Section)