INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Uzbekistan has tightened its health controls at border crossing with Afghanistan amid a cholera outbreak in Helmand and Zabul
provinces. According to Uzbek media reports, Uzbekistan&s Service for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health has set up 54
sanitary and quarantine points at border crossings around the country.These health check points have thermal imagers and non-contact
thermometers for medical and sanitary examination of those arriving in Uzbekistan.Kun.uz reported that patients in the country with acute
diarrhea were tested for cholera and that water samples are being taken from open reservoirs to identify cholera pathogens.A reserve of
medical places has been created to receive patients and a supply of necessary medicines has been formed.This comes after health officials
reported last week that at least 20 people had died from the bacterial disease and 180 were being treated at the Mirwais Hospital in
Kandahar province alone. Ministry of Public Health officials said that the cholera outbreak has been reported in Baghran and Shah Wali Kot
districts and has been attributed to the lack of clean water and eating contaminated food.The post Uzbekistan tightens border health
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