Eight new cases of cholera have been reported in greater Tonj East County in South Sudan’s Tonj State after the outbreak had been contained by health officials in the state last month.
More than 40 people died of cholera and over 1,000 others were infected in the state between May and July this year.
Makuei Wek Ngor, the officer in charge of monitor and evaluation at the ministry of health in Tonj, told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that eight people had cholera and it was a result of drinking unclean water and heavy rains in the state.
“The patients with cholera are eight…these patients are from Tonj East and the problem in Tonj East is that people don’t have clean water. People don’t have latrines and health facilities are few and far away, so this is the problem in Tonj East,” he said.
Authorities in the area said the cholera repense team has run out of funds.