The Mazabuka District Disaster Management Committee (DDMC) has ordered the immediate closure of Ndeke Market and all taverns in Ndeke Township as a measure of controlling Cholera which broke out in the district four days ago.
The DDMC has also instructed Mazabuka Municipal Council and health authorities to ensure all the 57 shallow Wells where residents fetch water for drinking and other domestic chores are buried within 48 hours.
Mazabuka District Commissioner Tyson Hamaamba, who chaired an urgent DDMC meeting, also directed the council to immediately unblock the drainages in the township to allow water to flow.
Mr. Hamaamba said government spent a lot of money in buying the light trucks for the Keep Mazabuka Clean Campaign and therefore would not entertain any negative attitude towards the programme.
He said the outbreak could have been avoided if preventive measures were put in place by the local authority prior to the rain season.
And Mr. Hamaamba urged State and Council police to monitor residents failing to adhere to the burying of Wells and throwing of litter in the refuse bins and take necessary action.
Meanwhile, Health authorities have described the Cholera situation in Ndeke as bad.
Briefing an emergency district disaster management committee meeting, Acting District Director of Health, Ellias Hamatanga called for concerted efforts from all stakeholders in dealing with the outbreak of the Cholera.
Yesterday Mazabuka District in Southern Province recorded nine new cases of Cholera bringing the total number of patients admitted to Ndeke Cholera centre to 21.
Health staff at the Cholera centre told ZANIS in Mazabuka that the situation is getting worse despite the discharge of 13 patients.
The health staff at the Cholera centre called on the district health management team to urgently beef up personnel at the centre.
They also complained that no doctor has been to the centre to assess patients except for clinical officers and nurses since the disease broke out.
A team from the Provincial Health Office in Livingstone which is in the district to assess the situation advised Acting District Director of Health, Ellias Hamatanga to quickly recruit more staff for the Cholera centre.
The team which is led by Provincial Clinical Care Specialist Dr Simon Mutembo also brought logistics to the district health management team for Cholera prevention and treatment.
ENDS/HC/AM/ZANIS
Oh no, not cholera again!
The earlier the better, Munkombwe, these are the issues that needs your quick action.not just talking without tangible action. come on guys, let it not be like Harare
Let us ensure that no lives are lost
Nine Chale shani bakalamba, nalelo mwalofwa ku mapepo?
MUGABE, MUGABE, MUGABE! The ful iz keeling Aphrika now.
it has become a fashion, every year we get affected
Iwe #5 Sausage, you have to understand International politics, hopefully you are in the USA as the flag shows. The western powers have made their cruel Mugabe that they are marketing as cruel and they have cripled his economy in Zimbabwe. The original Mugabe is not as cruel to the locals but to the western world. Learn to analise international politics before you judge. yashani tata?
Mutende ba Zimandola! Yaba, ilyo lyashi lyaku church, chansoni sana… Anyways, this evening I hope to conduct some family prayers.[-o<
I expected this and was only worried it might affect Chibolya and spread to all parts of Lusaka. It will be a disaster, no drain in Lusaka and gubbage is all over.
According to HH, cholera is now like an annual ceremony in Zambia. There is no preventive measures whatsoever! Shame!
Tulepepafye nomba!
Nine Chale
Do you remember how someone supported the idea by Teta on this blog that demonstrating causes cholera.
I just wonder how cholera has hit Mazabuka. Maybe i need to be updated that there was a demo in mazabuka which i was not aware of and this has resulted in cholera. MMD needs to clean up their acts and that of the cities we live in and cholera will be a thing of the past.
“He said the outbreak could have been avoided if preventive measures were put in place by the local authority prior to the rain season.”
Which local authority and what measures, baba?
“Yesterday Mazabuka District in Southern Province recorded nine new cases of Cholera … total number of patients admitted to Ndeke Cholera centre to 21. … the situation is getting worse despite the discharge of 13 patients.”
How is the situation getting worse when 13 are cleared out of 21 of which 9 were new cases? Were the 13 discharged cholera or diarrhoea cases? The truth must be reported as I expected to have read about deaths instead of many discharges if the situation is worsening.
#12 KCM I can’t remember that particular case but I agree with you 100% that maintaining clean surroundings is the only way we’re going to get rid of cholera for good.
This is sad. Our own municiple councils are struggling to cope with health issues. The situation in Zimbabwe does not make things any easier. However, the old adage ‘prevention is better than cure’ is only true if inforced and not just yapped about.
Ala kwena amalwele aya yamo yaliba preventable, nomba ichileshupa ma resources, bushe kanshi what can we do as zambians to help?
its sad :((