Sudan cholera outbreak kills 40 in a week as health centres overwhelmed

Cholera infected patients receive treatment in the Médecins Sans Frontières isolation centre in Tawila, western Sudan. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières.

Overwhelmed medical centres are resorting to treating patients on mattresses on the floor, MSF said, as the country’s two-year civil war aids the spread of the disease.