Somalia: Aid Dwindles, Disease Spreads

17 November 2011

Mogadishu — Doctors in Mogadishu are warning that famine victims in internally displaced camps have become vulnerable to contagious diseases like cholera and measles, as conditions here are ripe for an outbreak. This comes as internally displaced persons complain that relief aid to some camps has dwindled or stopped.

The leader of a group of Somali volunteer doctors aiding the famine victims living in camps outside of Mogadishu, Dr. Abdi Ibrahim Ahmed, told IPS that sanitation in the camps was of concern and that many did not have access to clean drinking water.

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