The ministry of health says the health personnel in Livingstone are on alert to curb any possible outbreak of Cholera in the district.
Ministry of Health Spokesperson, Canicius Banda, was responding to questions on what the Ministry had put in place to prevent the spread of cholera to Livingstone following the outbreak of cholera in neighbouring Zimbabwe.
He said all districts in the province have cholera preparedness committees aimed at curbing the outbreak of cholera at that level.
Dr Banda said Livingstone had a cholera preparedness committee in adding that the committee was on high alert and would ensure that awareness programmes are intensified on the outbreak of cholera.
He said the inspection of meat by health personnel at the market places has been on-going to ensure that the meat sold is of high standards.
Dr Banda also noted that any Zimbabwean national, who would be found with cholera in Livingstone, would be treated.
A check by ZANIS this morning at the Victoria Falls border post found that health officials were on alert and were refusing Zimbabwean nationals entry, into the country with foodstuffs.
The World Health Organisation, WHO, reports that nearly 300 people have died in Zimbabwe in recent weeks in a cholera outbreak which has hit about 6,000 people.
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That’s great prevention is better than cure guys.
Na mvela na matuvi ka
iwe chi number 2.. ukamba chani?
Well said # 1.
“The ministry of health says the health personnel in Livingstone are on alert to curb any possible outbreak of Cholera in the district. Ministry of Health Spokesperson, Canicius Banda, was responding to questions on what the Ministry had put in place to prevent the spread of cholera to Livingstone following the outbreak of cholera in neighbouring Zimbabwe.”
Why are we always reactive when we know that ‘prevention is better than cure’?
GRZ, please, provide clean and safe drinking water to all Zambians and death-threatening sicknesses of Cholera’s capability will be a thing of the past. We seriously need to prevent any cases of Cholera from taking place among our great Nation.
#6
And this is a town which is supposed to host a few countries in preparation for 2010. We should not even be talking about this. Clear ifiko then you are sorted.
Such news mek de people gone bad ahready even before de outbreak, just check out #2. Nuff tourist feel de same way too.
fUNNY ENOUGH, THE SOUTH AFRICANS ARE NOT CONSIDERING IT AN EMERGENCY AND YET PIPO ARE DYING IN RSA FROM CHOLERA, BUT WHEN ONE WOMAN DIED FROM A STRANGE DISEASE THE WHOLE COUNTRY WENT BESERK. CHOLERA WILL CLAIM MORE PIPO THAN DID THAT VIRAL DISEASE YET NO PANIC BUTTONS HAVE BEEN PRESSSED
zimbabwe was at one time better than zambian economy.zambia if unchecked will very very soon be like zimbabwe,RB please ,these things are global kukosafye and make decisions that will benefit the country.CHOLERA was not well known in zimbabwe but the economy has also contributed to it being there.twalekumbwa ku zimbabwe but look at them tekutemwa kwabo but the selfishness of rhe leaders has brought all this
“Any Zimbabwean national, who would be found with cholera in Livingstone, would be treated”.
Well said and hope this will work.
Viva H H man who has good health policy only for Zedians and NOT for foreigners
kwaza kutulula, take care or else muzayonda muli two minutes. say hows the situation in the capital, are we safe from this matenda?
Central,…..this officer Ras,think we got an invasion from the otherside and all we need a two truck loads of the herbs as it is
the only healing of the nation.
Stay clean,….don´t drink and drive…smoke and fly.
Livingstone is a very small city but the civic leaders are failing to keep it clean. The so called Health Department went to sleep in the 1980s. A South African friend of mine who visited Livingstone a few months ago told me of how she could not enter a number of butcheries there becauses of the terrible stench that came from these establishments. Dirtiness has become part of Zambian towns and cities because By-laws are not enforced. Anything goes so cholera is now a central part of Zambian life. What a shame.
With the rains already here, I hope Zambians will learn to keep our Country clean even if it is porverty stricken!
The other problem with us Zambians is that TULIBAFIKO! NO OFFENCE this because I have witnessed people throwing banana peels and papers right on the ground next to the bin!!!!
you can not turn away people who are suspected to be sick. be humane
All these outbreakes is because of Mugabe,his government could not give visas to the elders( koffi anan and the group),to sort out the problem in his country, its inhuman.Thanx ministry of heath for your alertness.
Spilling septic tanks all over! The whole place is a sewage!!!