Shabwah: Seven deaths of dengue fever reported

Medical sources in Shabwah province on Monday have warned of an outbreak of dengue fever following a marked rise in infections and deaths.

According to the sources, the young man, Saleh Mohammed Laswad, died on Sunday in a hospital in the city of Ataq, due to dengue fever, bringing the number of deaths from the epidemic to more than seven.

The sources accused the al-Islah group, which controls the province, of ignoring the alarming spread of the epidemic, which has claimed the lives of many people in recent months, due to the lack of basic necessities for hospitals and health centers in the province.

A 40-year-old man died of dengue fever in Ataq in early October, where medical reports indicate that the city has become the epicenter of the deadly epidemic, while health authorities monitoring some 229 people with the disease.

In early June, Shabwah province witnessed a widespread “viral fever” that affected a large number of citizens and became a threat to their lives.

Observers attributed the spread of the fever epidemic in most of  districts in the oil-rich  province to the deliberate neglect by the reform group, and its lack of provision of preventive and therapeutic means, including fuzzy spraying campaigns to control mosquitoes carrying viruses.

E.M