Sunday, September 18, 2011
The victims died on Saturday evening in Mogadishu's southern district of Hodan, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Over 445 children suffering from cholera and waterborne diseases have recently flocked to hospitals in southern Mogadishu for medical treatment.
But doctors are already overstretched by the large number of cholera cases.
Doctor Ahmed Sheikh Doon Diini of Banadir hospital in Mogadishu said on August 23 that overcrowding at the camps has been the main challenge to health workers.
A combination of poor sanitation conditions, scarcity of safe and clean drinking water, and overcrowding has led to the spread of waterborne diseases in Mogadishu.
According to the World Health Organization, children under the age of five account for 75 percent of all cases of highly infectious diarrhea.
Cholera is confirmed in the Banadir, Bay, Mudug, and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, and the number of acute diarrhea cases has increased dramatically in the last few months.
Reports say that aid agencies can take food supplies to only a limited number of people affected by the disaster since insecurity hinders efforts in much of southern Somalia.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.