A nationwide cholera epidemic in Sudan is expected to worsen during the current rainy season while authorities continue to deny the disease’s existence, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said. The Independent Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, who organized national demonstrations last year against poor hospital conditions, cited 22,000 cholera cases and 700 fatalities since late May 2017. Relief workers in 1985 estimated around 15,000 Sudanese were infected by a cholera outbreak within the country. Even authorities admitting to the origins of the cholera epidemic poses a challenge. “No, we haven’t gotten any cholera cases, thank God,” says award-winning surgeon Dr. Tom Catena from Gidel Hospital in the Nuba Mountains.