“It was a real nightmare for all the trekkers,” says a participant

The Trek Rose Trip in Morocco turned into a nightmare for hundreds of women, reported Friday November 3 France Bleu Drôme Ardèche. The solidarity race in the Sahara took place from October 26 to 31. More than 200 participants became seriously ill during this trek. This is what Karine living in Drôme tells France Bleu Drôme Ardèche.

For her, the cause of illness is the presence of a septic tank near the kitchens of this bivouac: “It was open to the sky” says Karine, “ten meters from the kitchens. An extreme stench, thousands of flies. They only had a few meters to go to land on the food that we were all going to ingest”.

Around fifty women perfused

She then decided not to eat the meals offered but others were fed anyway. According to her, “250 women fell ill” . “It was horrible because they all got sick almost at the same time”explains Karine, when there was only “30 toilets for these women. Not all of them were able to have access to the toilets and in any case the toilets were filled very quickly. They had no other choice but to vomit where they were… the diarrhea on them”.

Around fifty women had to be infused. But medical staff and medicines are very limited. The participants came together as a collective to denounce, like Karine, the responsibility of the organizer, the operator of the trip. For its part, Désertours ensures “cooperate fully to determine the nature, origin of the epidemic and how it spread”.