Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report (WMMR) IDP Hosting Districts, NWFP, Pakistan Week # 27 (27 Jun – 3 July), 2009 Emergency Humanitarian Action (EHA) Islamabad, Pakistan Children with Leishmaniasis attended for treatment in Jalozai II, IDP camp (Picture by WHO Team) Highlights: • Two alerts of AWD cases received (one from district Mardan and another from IDP camp Palosa‐II, district Charrsada) were investigated and identified as severe acute diarrhoea. • During this week, 198 health facilities reported 67430 patients’ consultations through the DEWS network • Acute Diarrhoea was reported in 8% (5682) of the total consultations in all age groups, while it accounts for 15% of consultations in children <5 years of age and 7% of the consultations in the patients above 5 years age • Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) continues to be the leading cause of morbidity, with a total of 14036 consultations (21% of total consultations) in IDP hosting districts NWFP. • In children less than 5 years of age, ARI accounts for 4129 (28%) of the total consultations. The WMMR is published by the World Health Organization (WHO), Emergency Humanitarian Action (EHA) unit, National Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan. For More Information, please contact: Dr. Ahmed Farah Shadoul , Chief of Operations, EHA , WHO, Pakistan;
[email protected] Dr. Fazal Qayyum, Director Health Services, Department of Health NWFP, Pakistan Dr. Musa Rahim Khan, Senior Public Health Officer (DEWS Coordinator), WHO,EHA , Pakistan;
[email protected] 1. Alert & outbreak investigations and response: During the epidemiological week 27 of 2009, two alerts of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) were reported and DEWS teams investigated the alerts and identified as cases of acute diarrhoea.