{"id":38380,"date":"2025-08-06T10:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=38380"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:38:38","slug":"diarrhea-cases-surge-in-aweil-west-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/diarrhea-cases-surge-in-aweil-west-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Diarrhea cases surge in Aweil West County"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38381\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/daaa-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/daaa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/daaa.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health workers\/courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Hou Akot Hou<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Medics in Aweil West County in South Sudan\u2019s Northern Bahr El Gazal state said that cases of diarrhea have increased as a result of poor hygiene.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, Lual Khamis Lual, the Deputy Director of Nyamlel Hospital in Aweil West County, said eight severe diarrhea cases have been reported this month.<\/p>\n<p>Khamis said the cases are attributable to poor hygiene, such as poor waste disposal that attracted flies that later contaminated food and other edibles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is that many young women and girls never wash the vegetables well; they just pick from the market\u2019s vegetable sellers and never wash them well. Such unwell-cooked foods contribute to stomach problems, which are attributable to the rise of the diarrhea cases,\u201d said Khamis.<\/p>\n<p>Khamis advised people to properly dispose of their waste as a remedy to cholera and other diseases that may arise due to poor hygiene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hou Akot Hou Medics in Aweil West County in South Sudan\u2019s Northern Bahr El Gazal state said that cases of diarrhea have increased as a result of poor hygiene. Speaking to the media, Lual Khamis Lual, the Deputy Director of Nyamlel Hospital in Aweil West County, said eight severe<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/diarrhea-cases-surge-in-aweil-west-county\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/daaa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38382,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380\/revisions\/38382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}