{"id":101513,"date":"2023-03-24T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&#038;p=101513"},"modified":"2023-03-24T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:09:45","slug":"southern-africa-cyclone-freddy-aftermath-brings-diseases-healthcare-gaps","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/southern-africa-cyclone-freddy-aftermath-brings-diseases-healthcare-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Cyclone Freddy aftermath brings diseases, healthcare gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">Southern African\u00a0countries hit hard by tropical Cyclone Freddy are reeling from disease outbreaks, with health services stretched to the limit, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"Section4\" dir=\"LTR\">\n<p><a name=\"block-views-block-content-fields-block-body1\"><\/a> The devastation caused by the cyclone in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique has increased the spread of cholera and malaria, as well as malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0more than 300 health facilities have been destroyed or flooded\u00a0in the three countries, limiting health care access.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclone\u2019s destruction increased public health risks including a surge in the spread of cholera, malaria, malnutrition,\u00a0COVID-19, and other vaccine-treatable diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WHO said that Malawi was still in the midst of its \u201cworst-ever\u201d cholera outbreak, although cases are declining. In Mozambique, cholera cases have\u00a0more than doubled over the past week, to almost 2,400.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a double landfall in less than a month, the impact of Cyclone Freddy is immense and deepfelt\u201d, said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we work to understand the full extent of the devastation, our\u00a0priority is to ensure that affected communities and families receive health assistance\u00a0for immediate needs as well as to\u00a0limit the risks of water-borne diseases\u00a0and other infections spreading,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[893],"region":[30],"source":[1538],"country":[2978],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101514,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/101513\/revisions\/101514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101513"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=101513"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=101513"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=101513"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=101513"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=101513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}