Lebanon's ailing health system grapples with cholera outbreak

 

In a freezing school room in Arsal, an remoted Lebanese city perched 1,500 metres above sea stage close to the Syrian border, one at a time youngsters line up for his or her cholera vaccine — taken orally, a short gulp down the throat. The trainer marks their palms with a pen, and now the jacket-clad youngsters have a further layer of safety towards Lebanon’s first cholera outbreak in 3 decades.

 Arsal, a in large part Sunni Muslim city withinside the north-jap reaches of the Baalbek-Hermel governorate, is one vicinity of Lebanon that has been a focus of the cholera spread — and efforts to combat the disorder. A poor, overcrowded city in which casual settlements take a seat down along houses, it’s an appropriate location for the disorder to take hold.