A total of 14,333 people have contracted cholera and 252 have died in Guinea-Bissau since the disease broke out in the country in June, said reports reaching in Dakar Tuesday from its capital Bissau.

The disease contaminated nearly 5,000 people every month since its outbreak and the country cannot provide sufficient medical care for all patients because of its under-developed health care system, said Guinea-Bissau's healthy ministry in a statement.

The ministry asked the international community to continue efforts to provide medicine and donations to relieve the pressure that the outbreak is causing.

According to a recent statement of the World Health Organization, the outbreak of cholera in some western African countries has affected at least 31,000 people and over 500 have died of the disease.

Source: Xinhua