Emergency Cholera Response in Radman Al Awadh sub-distric of Radman district, Albayda Governorate
According to WHO situation report June 2019, the Ministry of Public Health and Population of Yemen reported Radman as one of the cholera affected district with life threat on children, men and women and host communities. The report claimed that the cumulative total number of suspected cholera cases from 1 January 2019 to 30 June 2019 is 2,568, with 978 cholera accumulative attack rate in which children under five represent 26.91% of total suspected cases during 2019.
Resilient Communities RECO WASH team has conducted the cholera needs assessment during Mar. 1st, 2019 to Mar. 15th, 2019 in Radman Al Awadh sub-district of Radman districts, Al-Bayda Governorate where AWD/Cholera has been reported. The main findings of the needs assessment were that majority of people live in mud houses with no adequate sanitation and water is brought to beneficiaries’ home by donkeys where girls and women are the main in charge of fetching water. The picture in the sub-district could summarized as follow:
Resilient Communities RECO WASH team has conducted the cholera needs assessment during Mar. 1st, 2019 to Mar. 15th, 2019 in Radman Al Awadh sub-district of Radman districts, Al-Bayda Governorate where AWD/Cholera has been reported. The main findings of the needs assessment were that majority of people live in mud houses with no adequate sanitation and water is brought to beneficiaries’ home by donkeys where girls and women are the main in charge of fetching water. The picture in the sub-district could summarized as follow:
(1) Few number of houses with high number of people living in them.
(2) 79% need assessment responses reported that there are animal and human wastes are close to water sources and that water sources are located on rainwater routs.
(3) 84% of respondents reported that they do not have access to safe drinking water and that they have no idea on how make water safe for drinking.
(4) Only 14 of houses that have latrines with covered cesspits, and the rest are open.
This project is designed to improve access to safe water drinking, sanitation and proper hygiene promotion services in Radman Al Awadh sub-district of Radman districts, Al-Bayda Governorate to reduce the quick spread of cholera. The project will enhance access to safe water drinking for 188 HHs of Cholera-affected communities through provision, rehabilitation and maintenance of water supply systems. In Addition to, it will apply proper sanitation systems by rehabilitation and construction of latrines and cesspits for 95 HHs, and raise the knowledge of hygiene promotion and life-saving practices for 1316 individuals.