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Cholera outbreak in Balochistan amidst flash floods: an impending public health crisis

Despite being the largest province in Pakistan due to inadequate and underdeveloped infrastructure, Balochistan has been the worst-inflicted region with biblical floods. Following these disastrous flash floods, a sudden rise in cholera cases was seen in the affected province. To overcome this public...

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Autores principales: Jawed, Shizra, Islam, Muhammad Bilal, Awan, Hashir Ali, Ullah, Irfan, Asghar, Muhammad Sohaib
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10389440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36799817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JS9.0000000000000150
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description Despite being the largest province in Pakistan due to inadequate and underdeveloped infrastructure, Balochistan has been the worst-inflicted region with biblical floods. Following these disastrous flash floods, a sudden rise in cholera cases was seen in the affected province. To overcome this public health crisis, the authorities must put in place a system to ensure food safety, an adequate supply of clean drinking water, and the provision of proper sanitation facilities for the locals.
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spelling pubmed-103894402023-08-01 Cholera outbreak in Balochistan amidst flash floods: an impending public health crisis Jawed, Shizra Islam, Muhammad Bilal Awan, Hashir Ali Ullah, Irfan Asghar, Muhammad Sohaib Int J Surg Perspective Despite being the largest province in Pakistan due to inadequate and underdeveloped infrastructure, Balochistan has been the worst-inflicted region with biblical floods. Following these disastrous flash floods, a sudden rise in cholera cases was seen in the affected province. To overcome this public health crisis, the authorities must put in place a system to ensure food safety, an adequate supply of clean drinking water, and the provision of proper sanitation facilities for the locals. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10389440/ /pubmed/36799817 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JS9.0000000000000150 Text en © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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