38 succumbe to waterborne diseases in one week

At least 38 people have died from waterborne related epidemics, including diarrhoea and dysentery in week 5 of 2014, with 16 suspected new typhoid cases reported, the ministry of Health and Child Care has said.

The weekly report on epidemic and prone diseases disclosed that of the deaths recorded, 17 were diarrhoea related, followed by malaria with 16 deaths and dysentery which claimed 5.