An adviser to the port city’s mayor said Tuesday that its drinking water had been contaminated by decomposing garbage and corpses after months under siege.
that the port on the Azov Sea was on the verge of a spike in infectious diseases. It said this week that the city was “literally drowning in garbage and sewage” as its central water supply and sewage systems were down. Summer heat has hastened the decomposition of thousands of corpses under the rubble, adding to the problem, it said.Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko as saying that tens of thousands of people in the ravaged city could die from dysentery and cholera.the WHO.
“The risk of a cholera outbreak is high in Mariupol,,” Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the WHO, said in an email Tuesday, pointing to a public health analysis“However, we cannot confirm whether or not there is a current outbreak in the absence of a systematic epidemiological investigation and laboratory testing confirmation.”
Harris added that accessing Mariupol remains difficult and that the WHO was looking for opportunities to do so through its partners on the ground.Mariupol residents endured months of heavy bombardment amid the Russian siege that left them with little food, water, electricity or medicine, raising fears of
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