Leishmaniasis sweeps Syria’s Hasakah countryside
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – The number of patients diagnosed with leishmaniasis in the town of Tal Tamr, north of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, is rising on a daily basis, which is worrying the residents about its further spread, a doctor, who supervises the treatment of leishmaniasis infections, said on Monday.
At the beginning of August, 2021, leishmaniasis actually emerged and became a concern for the local population due to the appearance of the bumps in more than one place in the body of the infected, some of the patients had more than 20 bumps, according to doctors.
About 4,000 people have been diagnosed with leishmaniasis in the town of Tal Tamr and its countryside, Hanouf Ibrahim, a doctor supervising the treatment of leishmaniasis infections at the Martyr Legarin dispensary, told North Press.
People of different ages, mostly women and children, visit the health center, which provides its services to patients for free, to receive doses of the vaccine they receive twice a week.
According to Ibrahim, the number of patients is worrying, as the center receives more patients daily.
The center’s records shows that about 150 people diagnosed with leishmaniasis, visit the health center weekly.
The failure of patients to come to the clinic in the early stages of the disease makes it difficult to contain the disease and control it as required, Ibrahim added.