Story: Fatima’s Daughter Gets Sick (Picture 1.1) Fatima and her family live in a rural village in the northern part of Tanzania. She lives with her husband and two children, Asad, who is three years old, and Afya, who just turned one. Afya is not quite walking, but crawling everywhere! Fatima loves her family and works hard to take care of them. Every day, Fatima walks with both children about thirty minutes each way to the river to fetch water for the household. Last week there were extreme rains causing widespread flooding along the river and in the fields of Fatima’s village and the surrounding villages. Yesterday was the first day Fatima was able to make it to the river with her children since the flooding. While she gathered water, Afya played on the shore of the river, putting her hands in the water and then in her mouth. Early the next day, Fatima noticed her youngest child was not feeling well at all. Afya was having very frequent, watery, and abundant diarrhea like rice water. She was also vomiting and very thirsty. By late that afternoon, Afya had stopped peeing and her eyes were sunken. Both Fatima and Asad felt okay. That night Fatima was very worried about Afya. She heard about cholera on the radio from local community health workers last year when there were heavy rains and flooding up north. The health workers said that cholera is a very serious disease and can be deadly especially in small children. She remembered that contaminated water can often be the source. As Fatima continued to care for Afya, she thought that it could just be common diarrhea. No one was talking about cholera in her village, but Fatima was very worried about Afya and unsure what to do. Fatima’s Daughter Gets Sick (Picture 1.1)
Story: Fatima’s Daughter Gets Sick (Picture 1.1) Fatima and her family live in a rural village in the northern part of Tanzania. She lives with her husband and two children, Asad, who is three years old, and Afya, who just turned one. Afya is not quite walking, but crawling everywhere! Fatima loves her family and works hard to take care of them. Every day, Fatima walks with both children about thirty minutes each way to the river to fetch water for the household. Last week there were extreme rains causing widespread flooding along the river and in the fields of Fatima’s village and the surrounding villages. Yesterday was the first day Fatima was able to make it to the river with her children since the flooding. While she gathered water, Afya played on the shore of the river, putting her hands in the water and then in her mouth. Early the next day, Fatima noticed her youngest child was not feeling well at all. Afya was having very frequent, watery, and abundant diarrhea like rice water. She was also vomiting and very thirsty. By late that afternoon, Afya had stopped peeing and her eyes were sunken. Both Fatima and Asad felt okay. That night Fatima was very worried about Afya. She heard about cholera on the radio from local community health workers last year when there were heavy rains and flooding up north. The health workers said that cholera is a very serious disease and can be deadly especially in small children. She remembered that contaminated water can often be the source. As Fatima continued to care for Afya, she thought that it could just be common diarrhea. No one was talking about cholera in her village, but Fatima was very worried about Afya and unsure what to do. Fatima’s Daughter Gets Sick (Picture 1.1)
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