Algeria – Several confirmed cases of gastro-enteritis

All had started at the beginning of the month of Ramadan after the evacuation of people suffering from, diarrhoea headaches and colic in urgency at the hospital of the town of Sour El Ghozlane, 40 km in the Western south of Bouira, Algeria. In the beginning, everyone believed that it was about a food poisoning due to the water melon consumption which would be irrigated with worn water.

But since the majority of the patients were coming from the same district a team from prevention service unit DSP of Bouira visit the location for a better description of the situation. The water which fed the population of Sour El Ghozlane was analised and the result was gastroentérite.

At present strict measures are taken such as informing the services of the APC to condemn suspect drilling while disinfecting the places using chloride.

Source: La Nouvelle République, (in French ), 23rd August 2010

HM The King Enquires about Oujda Liquid Sanitation Program

 HM King Mohammed VI asks about the progress of the Oujda liquid sanitation priority program, with a cost of 550 million dirhams (about $ 63 million), and inaugurated a rainwater drainage system to protect the southern sector of the city against floods.

This ambitious program provides for equipping with sanitation facilities outlying and under-equipped neighborhoods as well as upgrading and expanding the sanitation network through the setting up of two wastewater pumping stations and renewal of two collectors.

The program includes the implementation of the first phase of the construction works to protect the southern sector of the city against floods, worth 178 millions dirhams. During the first phase a rainwater drainage system, strengthening the main collector will be built together with eight storm water detention pond.

Source: Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse, 11 May 2010