The Central Province epidemic preparedness and prevention committee has resolved that travellers entering the cosmopolitan town of Kabwe must be screened and disinfected from cholera.
The resolution was arrived at during the first 2018 provincial epidemic preparedness and prevention committee meeting held yesterday.
Central Province Acting Permanent Secretary (PS) Felix Mang’wato, said the meeting was convened in the wake of sporadic cases of cholera that have been reported in the province.
Mr. Mang’wato said the cholera preventive measures should not be politicised.
He has therefore called for support from all well-meaning Zambians to ensure that the disease does not escalate.
The provincial epidemic preparedness and prevention committee meeting heard that some cases of cholera have been reported in Chisamba, Chibombo, Kabwe and Kapiri Mposhi although both the health authorities and the provincial administration remained mute on statistics.
The provincial epidemic preparedness and prevention committee meeting also endorsed President Edgar Lungu’s directive and resolved to remove the vendors from the streets of Kabwe with immediate effect.
The committee further proposed that subject to confirmation with education authorities, the schools should remain closed to avoid abetting the spreading of the disease.
And Central Province Director of Health, Rosemary Mwanza, said the people in the province can either allow cholera to mess them up or end it.
Dr. Mwanza has since called for pro-activeness as opposed to being reactive to contain the disease.
The meeting was attended by provincial heads of government departments, cooperating partners, District Commissioners, Council Secretaries, public health experts and members of the provincial joint operation committee (PJOC).
Ummmmm how possible is that…
kabwe is prone to cholera, year 2000 was worst hit. makululu compound, wake up or die.
ba Lusaka, thought we asked you to leave cholera in 2017. I have never seen a place full of balunshi like your Hood. ati ba Lusaka? just go back to mwense, shamgombo,dundumwezi,chama or chavuma than chaisa,kanyama or chibolya.
It is simply not going to work. Are they telling us that Kanyama residents visiting Kabulonga will also have to be screened? I have never suffered from Cholera before but I have a question? Does a cholera-infected person have the strength to travel a long distance?
Cholera is already there in Kabwe just like any of these shanty cities on the copperbelt. it has just been hibernating. If you think its a Lusaka problem, you will be surprised
I remember kitwe, kashikishi, kaputa been ravaged by cholera in distant past, i don’t remember lusaka closing it’s boarders and declaring all foreigners diseased and deemed for through health screening.
How do you disinfect a person from cholera?
The Mayor of Lusaka should resign. This has happened on his watch so whether he says its a situation from way back or whatever, the guy SHOULD go!!! This is very embarrassing for us as a nation at best and very cruel at worst! Why should people die of higeine related diseases in 2017?!!!!
Impossible. Kabwe?? which is in the centre of Zed????
Who supplied these vaccines that will go round the whole country? Something fishy I smell.