AANES in Raqqa starts sterilizing water
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, Head of the Water Bureau in the Raqqa Civil Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), said they have increased efforts in watching and sterilizing drinking water after cholera cases were recorded in the countryside of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor in Syria.
On September 10, the AANES Health Board announced three cholera-related deaths in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor countryside.
Hussein al-Jirjib, Head of the Water Bureau, told North Press that they have taken “precautionary measures to curb the outbreak of cholera via drinking water that is pumped from the Euphrates River.”
Al-Jirjib denied reports circulated by local media outlets that water in Raqqa was contaminated indicating that the water pumped to the city is sterilized and watched regularly.
Al-Jirijb added that watching and examining water are done on regular basis in Raqqa and its countryside.
On Sunday, Jwan Mustafa, Co-chair of the AANES Health Board, said “Cholera infections recorded in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor were caused by contaminated water.”
In a statement made to the official website of the AANES, Mustafa said, “The Board continues its studies and researches in this regard.”