The Ministry of Health Spokesperson Dr. Kamoto Mbewe has revealed that 86 new cholera cases have been recorded in Lusaka province.
Dr. Mbewe said currently Lusaka has 241 cases of cholera under treatment.
He said Copperbelt province has recorded 8 cases bringing the number to 11
under treatment at various cholera centers on the Copperbelt.
Dr. Mbewe said southern province recorded one new case which is under
treatment.
He said this in a telephone interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today.
Dr. Mbewe explained that previously cholera was only confined to three
provinces namely Lusaka, Copperbelt,and Southern Provinces but that 13 new
cholera cases have now been recorded in Luapula province.
“Previously Cholera cases were only being recorded in three provinces
namely Lusaka, Copperbelt, and Southern provinces but the ministry has
recorded thirteen new cholera case in Chiengi district of Luapula
province,” Dr. Mbewe said.
Dr. Mbewe stated that the ministry was working hard with its cooperating
partners in addressing the cholera epidemic.
He said the ministry through the National Epidemic Preparedness Prevention
Control Management Unit (NEPPCMU) had been carrying out massive
sensitisation programmes in the affected areas to educate people on the
prevention of cholera.
The Ministry of Health has recorded a total of 1,474 cholera cases since
the beginning of the rain season in October last year.
ZANIS
There we go again:(
The source of cholera in Lusaka is all those illegal settlements, which have no sewerage system, no piped water into the houses and poor drainage. The only way to eradicate cholera, which is a disease of filth, is upgrade some illegal shanties, demolish others, provide clean piped water and design a sewerage system. Otherwise, Lusaka will perpetually be a cholera city and a laughing stoke/bye-word for poor governance all over the civilised world!