14 cases of cholera, mostly children were recorded in Al Abassiya Tegeli Hospital in Sudan’s South Kordofan State over the weekend, multiple sources said.

The sources told Radio Tamazuj on Sunday that the hospital had received 14 cases of cholera, three of which have already been discharged. He pointed out that the health facility is experiencing acute shortages of medicines.

Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhoea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae.