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The dormitory town of Chitungwiza on Friday recorded 50 new cholera cases while the whole country recorded 5 788 cholera cases, 38 laboratory-confirmed deaths, 120 suspected cholera deaths, and 1 006 laboratory-confirmed cases were reported, TechnoMagTv has established.
The Medical and Private Practitioners Association of Zimbabwe, president Johannes Marisa said that lack of funding for water infrastructure and proper sanitation was to blame for the spiralling of the disease.
“There is no proper purification of water leading to simple waterborne diseases which are transmitted through contaminated water” Marisa said
He further said, “Financing is one of the building blocks of a society, if there is no financing we are going nowhere as any failure in the governance system stalls development,”
Hamadziripi Dube, the health analyst also commented on this saying that there was a need for a taskforce to look into proper service delivery.
“The govt must act looking at Chitungwiza, for example, 50 is a large number of cases. Another solution is to improve on problem areas including garbage collection, proper water purification, and good sanitation,” Dube said
Cholera remains a global threat to public health and is an indicator of inequity and lack of social development.
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