Pro-government media revealed that 106 cases of viral hepatitis A were recorded, as a result of contamination of drinking water with sewage in the Masyaf area in Hama countryside.
Ali Khallouf, head of the Haylin municipality in Masyaf, Hama governorate, said that hepatitis is an infectious disease that may multiply exponentially, especially since new infections are recorded every hour.
The loyal Global website quoted Khallouf as saying that the village does not have a laboratory to analyze these injuries, so the municipality can only receive suspected cases, take the initial examination slides and send them to the Masyaf laboratory.
And the mayor indicated that they are awaiting the Hama Water Corporation’s initiative to repair the drinking water line and separate it from the sewage water line, as an urgent emergency measure, which has not happened so far, despite his early reporting to the concerned authorities in the governorate of the emergence of hepatitis infections in the village.
Earlier, the village of “Baamra” in the Tartous countryside recorded more than 100 cases of hepatitis due to the contamination of the water with sewage, and the regime’s inability to supply the people with tanker water due to the lack of diesel fuel. Meanwhile, the regime’s health directorate did not respond properly to the spread of the disease, under the pretext of relying on “herd immunity.”
The pro-regime “Al-Watan” newspaper reported that the new “Bamra” well works properly for several months of the year only, while its water is directed to the road for the rest of the year, due to its contamination with the sewage water of the al-Bazar neighborhood in Safita, after several complaints submitted by the residents to the Health Directorate.
