Cameroon's public health ministry says a cholera outbreak is sweeping across the towns of Limbe, Buea and Tiko, near the border with Nigeria.
The government says 12 of the 600 patients rushed to hospitals in those towns died within the past 72 hours.
Nyenti Annereke, director of the Limbe government hospital, said the facility, which has a capacity of 200 beds, has received more than 240 cholera patients.
"We built three tents in Limbe hospital yesterday because patients were at the veranda, in the corridors of the wards," he said. Читать дальше...