Narcissistic Acts: Not Fabricated – the Fever is real!

By: Alaa Babiker

Everyday is a new day, a perfect one to proceed with our lives and start living the best we can.
In the absence of normal living essentials like the availability of pure water and proper sanitation, and the sever shortage of basic life saving materials like medicines and medical care, the Sudanese with complicated medical conditions are suffering inside the Fallen Capital, it is getting extremely critical now as the new wave of fever is rising and many death cases are reported in the past few weeks as a result of this fever.

The fever has been identified as Dengue Fever, and according to WHO: “Dengue (break-bone fever) is a viral infection that spreads from mosquitoes to people. It is more common in tropical and subtropical climates.
Most people who get dengue will not have symptoms. But for those who do, the most common symptoms are high fever, headache, body aches, nausea, and rash. Most will get better in 1–2 weeks. Some people develop severe dengue and need care in a hospital. In severe cases, dengue can be fatal.
You can lower your risk of dengue by avoiding mosquito bites especially during the day.
Dengue is treated with pain medicine as there is no specific treatment currently – WHO”.

The fever vanishes by its own, but need a good immune response, this is why it gets fatal in people with existing medical conditions.
During war many other factors helped increasing the severity of the fever, including shortage of water, presence of mosquitoes and the absence of effective prevention and control, and shortage of nutritious food for prolonged periods of time. In addition to the most important factor which is the absence of proper medical care.

Individuals who have critical medical conditions like heart problems, diabetics, increased blood pressure, and cancer suffer the most. As it is not possible to deliver medical care at night and the medical care provided during the day is far and limited.

Please consider the following precautions advised by WHO to avoid the transmission of Dengue Fever:
– Protecting yourself from mosquito bites.
– Prevent Mosquito breeding.
And if you have it please follow these instruction to lower its complications:
– Rest.
– Drink plenty of liquids.
– Use acetaminophen (paracetamol) for pain.
– Avoid non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, like ibuprofen and aspirin; and
– Watch for severe symptoms and contact available doctors as soon as possible.
– If possible please transfer people with existing medical condition outside Khartoum.

I would like to conclude with a cheer news, our brave Armed Forces are making noticeable achievements in the past few days, if this positive pace continued for more 2 – 3 months the Fallen Capital will be rescued very soon In Shaa Allah.

Lets pray to Allah to grant wisdom and positive thinking upon our leaders to end this war, and give our Sudanese soldiers the strengths to rescue and unite the country once again.