Via All Headline News :
" Some 67 children suffering from diarrhea were taken to Mogadishu medical facilities for urgent treatment.
With some regions in drought-ridden Somalia receiving spring showers, watery diarrhea and measles continue to claim the lives of children in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation.
At least 30 children have died from watery diarrhea and scores more are suffering from the disease in southern Somalia towns, Mohammed Hussein, a resident in the Lower Shabelle region, told All Headline News by phone.
Most of the toddlers are under the age of five.
Hussein said there is outbreak of two diseases, diarrhea and measles, noting that four children on Tuesday night died of measles in the Wanlawayn district, about 90 kilometers southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Some 67 children suffering from diarrhea were taken to Mogadishu medical facilities for urgent treatment, according to the local inhabitant.
“Whenever rains start in this region (Lower Shabelle), it forms more lagoons where the children play and drink that unsafe water,” said Hussein. That may lead to an outbreak of watery diarrhea, he added."
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