13.2 Blue Nile 13.2.1 Suspected Cholera outbreak Inpatient Patients at inKarori Karorihealth healthCentre Centre Since August-2016, Blue Nile state witnessed an outbreak of watery diarrhea. The first case was registered on 17th August 2016 at Sawelail village north Roseires town, thereafter the disease spread almost in the entire Blue Nile State. The symptoms of the disease are whitish-watery diarrhea with severe vomit. Most of the medical doctors suspected it (the disease) to be cholera and many death cases have been registered. One of the lab technicians that HUDO contacted confirmed that “thirteen (13) cases were cholera positive” without giving the physical report yet the ministry of health insists that it‟s just watery diarrhea. The health ministry refused to disclose the actual numbers of affected people, the dead and they went ahead to arrest those who tried to document the cases6. The table below shows the affected people by localities and the number of deaths according to HUDO records: 6 There is arresting case included under arbitrary arrest in this report. 16