The Ministry of Health has disclosed that cholera cases in Lusaka have risen to 1045.
Ministry of Health Head of Communications and External Relations Stanslous Ngosa said in a statement that the number of cholera cases have now increased to 1045 cholera since the disease broke out on 6th October 2017.
Mr. Ngosa said a total of 96 patients are currently receiving treatment at various cholera centres in Lusaka district.
He has meanwhile said K34 million has been released by the Ministry of Finance towards the cholera response.
He said the funds are being utilised to improve the availability of clean and safe water, improving sanitation including solid waste management, health promotion and education, supporting and enforcement of the public Health Act.
Mr. Ngosa added that community interventions have been intensified through increasing the number of volunteers and environmental staff.
He has since appealed to the public to observe basic rules of hygiene, boil water for drinking or add chlorine to it.
He strongly discouraged residents from using water from shallow wells.
Mr. Ngosa has instead advised the residents in affected areas to use the toilet to answer the call of nature and to cooperate with health workers and all those working in the community to prevent cholera.
He further advised the public to take anyone having diarrhoea and vomiting to the nearest health facility without delay.
Is it the same Lusaka where PF govt wants to construct 7 civic centers ?
Surely we’ve got our priorities twisted.
Very shameful that these guys have failed to control an epidemic that started during the dry season. They delayed interventions until the rains came!! Bakoswe mumpoto bengi!!
Zambia gets cholera every year and our leaders know why we get it. But is is as if they make sure that the conditions are always right for a cholera breakdown; they let street vending happen everywhere when the city has no public toilets, they let street venders sell food in dirty places and for the most of the time this year, most of Lusaka has had no water.
I think cholera is deliberately let to breakout so that some ‘Koswes’ can make money out of it.
Please stop insulting people. Who doesn’t know that you need to wash your hands before you eat, that clean environment is important,using toilet instead of bush if at all it exist. The problem is Lusaka doesn’t have clean water. Lwsc is doing completely nothing. Paid a visit in Kabanana near highland school ground people are staying in sewer water from a blocked sewer and it has been like that despite repotting to lwsc. Please let’s just get bonuses its that time again.
Poor planning is project management mistake number one! The DMMU’s mission and vision reads “to provide a “safety net” for protection of the citizenry and their assets and the environment against disasters through a pro-active, community-based, developmental and multi-sectoral approach that combines disaster preparedness, prevention and mitigation and integrates disaster management into national development”. Cholera outbreak is nothing new and has always been making news every rain season for how many years I don’t know. Kaya maybe ni funding.
Mwilanyela pa mbibilili
This is exactly what happens when public money meant to build sanitation facilities and to provide clean water has ended up in the hands of greedy PF thugs who have no interest to what happens to poor Zambia. And then you have a daughter of a chief koswe pretending to solve sanitation problems and carrying a not so heavy luggage for two minutes and put pictures that problems are getting solved. What a travesty !
How can you boil the water which in the first place is not there???? We like fire fighting, this should stop. We need concerted effort especially our local authorities and the water utility company to make clean water accessible and affordable Zambians.