MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Lebanese Ministry of Health has already confirmed seven deaths and 227 cases of cholera in the country while the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed the presence of the bacteria in several wastewater stations.
The stations of Ain Mreissé, in Beirut, as well as that of Ghadir and Bourj Hammoud, in Mount Lebanon, have tested positive in the analyzes of WHO experts, who have warned that the disease has spread to two other regions. located far from the initial confirmed cases in Akkar, in northern Lebanon.
The head of the Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Establishment, Jean Gibran, has denied rumors in recent hours that Lebanon’s tap water could be contaminated. “It is completely false information and everything is under control”, he has assured in comments collected by ‘L’Orient le Jour’.
Meanwhile, social tension mounts. Relatives of a Syrian citizen who died at the government hospital in Minié in northern Lebanon attacked members of the medical team and destroyed property at the health center on Saturday following the announcement of his death, the National News Agency reported.
The security forces moved to the scene to investigate the case while the Minister of Health, Firas Abiad, has traveled to the epicenter of the epidemic to examine the situation in person and promised the immediate arrival of vaccines.
“About 10,000 doses will arrive in Lebanon in the next ten days and will be used mainly by medical teams dealing with the spread of cholera and by people in crowded places such as prisons,” he said.
