Baghdad water might be infected with cholera
Baghdad, Jun 10, (VOI) – A health department in Baghdad’s eastern side of al-Rasafa has warned that drinking water in the capital may be contaminated with cholera bacteria after water samples had been found to be free of chlorine disinfectant.
“The department tested samples of drinking water from different parts of Baghdad. The Ministry of Health is warning citizens against drinking contaminated water, which is a major cause of the spread of cholera,” the director of al-Rasafa’s health department, Qassem Abdul Hadi, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq, (VOI).
Water samples taken from the areas of Jarf al-Nadaf, Jisr Diala, al-Wahda district, al-Madaen intersection and al-Kut were totally free of chlorine disinfectant, which means that drinking water in these areas might be contaminated, Hadi explained.
“No single cholera case has been reported thus far,” Hadi noted, adding that all hospitals in Baghdad’s Rasafa area have created buffer zones to prevent the spread of the disease.
Last year, many cholera cases were confirmed in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, which prompted the Iraqi Ministry of Health to take the necessary precautions to avoid the spread of the disease to other Iraqi provinces.
