Tawergha General Hospital said on Friday it had received more than 150 new patients suffering from leishmaniasis, pointing out that the number of leishmaniasis cases in the city has exceeded 950 people.

For his part, Mayor of Tawergha, Abdul Rahman Al-Shakshak said in a press statement that the National Center for Disease Control had provided Tawergha Hospital with vaccines that are hardly sufficient to address the cases until the end of this month, calling on the Presidential Council to take a serious stand and concrete steps in order to curb the spread of leishmaniasis in the city.

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