{"id":60334,"date":"2020-01-30T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60334"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T07:02:28","slug":"diarrhea-kills-15-people-in-central-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60334","title":{"rendered":"Diarrhea kills 15 people in central Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>MOGADISHU, Jan 30 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; An outbreak of acute watery diarrhea has killed 15 people in Somalia&#8217;s central region of Hiraan, an official said.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>HirShabelle State health minister Abdi Mo&#8217;alim Mohamed told reporters that acute watery diarrhea broke out in BeledWeyne town causing deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Acute Watery Diarrhoea killed up to 15 people mainly kids with more than 60 other people suffering from the disease,&#8221; Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also appealed to humanitarian agencies to deliver assistance to the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are in shortage of medical equipment, hence we appeal to the international and local humanitarian agencies to help the victims in the region,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medical sources also said the number of patients was increasing by the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From Friday up to date, more than 65 people have been admitted to the hospital coming from distant areas of the region and the hospital is overcrowded with patients,&#8221; Abdul Halim, director of the main hospital in Beledweyne town told journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak follows major flooding in Beledweyne in November 2019, which displaced over 300,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the UN, up to 85 percent of the town was submerged in water after Shabelle River breached its banks. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Jan 30 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; An outbreak of acute watery diarrhea has killed 15 people in Somalia&#8217;s central region of Hiraan, an official said. HirShabelle State health minister Abdi Mo&#8217;alim Mohamed told reporters that acute watery diarrhea broke out in BeledWeyne town causing deaths. &#8220;Acute Watery Diarrhoea killed up to 15 people mainly kids with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}