While the Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan is preoccupied with his foreign ambitions, health institutions in Istanbul are warning citizens and visitors against the risk of scabies infection.
A number of Turkish cities are witnessing nowadays an unprecedented outbreak of the disease and a rise in infection rates especially in light of the shortage of medically necessary drugs.
Istanbul Chamber of physicians affirmed that there is a significant increase in scabies infection rates in the city, calling on citizens to be careful.
Secretary-General of Istanbul chamber of physicians Osman Ozturk attributed the disease prevalence to the high resistance gained by the disease against treatment.
Turkish Health Ministry
The Turkish ministry of health warned of scabies disease spread in a number of Turkish cities and called on citizens to hurry to any hospital immediately if they experience any of the disease-associated symptoms.
In an official statement, the ministry added that the disease can be transmitted through hand-touching or using the same bed within a period of 15-20 minutes, explaining that the disease symptoms appear within 3-6 weeks after infection.
Moreover, the Turkish pharmacists warned against the lack of necessary medicines to treat scabies, noting that there are only 368,000 packages of medicine in all Turkish provinces.
What is Scabies?
Scabies is a skin infestation caused by a mite known as the Sarcoptes scabiei.
Untreated, these microscopic mites can live on your skin for months.
They reproduce on the surface of your skin and then burrow into it and lay eggs.
This causes an itchy, red rash to form on the skin
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