Malawi News Agency (MANA) has reported that outbreak continues to
wreck havoc in Chikwawa district with reports from the district's health office
indicating that the number of cases has increased to 281 from 239 the previous
week. Three lives have so far been lost.
Initially, the outbreak affected
people from areas of Ngabu, Lundu, Ngowe, Kasisi and Chapananga. But fresh
reports indicate it has also hit areas of Chiefs Katunga and Makhuwira.
According to the District
Environmental Health Officer Thomson Kajombo, there is need for speedy
interventions to contain the coutbreak.
“We have received and treated six
new cases from Chipwaila, Makhuwira and Gumbwa under chief Kasisi. We are
intending to do door to door sensitization activities in order to urgently stop
the further spreading of the cholera outbreak,” he said.
Other organizations like Medicines
sans frontiers, UNICEF and World Health Organizations are also supporting
health authorities to contain the outbreak.
Meanwhile, Medicines Sans Frontiers
has constructed an additional cholera treatment unit at the district hospital
to speed up the treatment process.
Recently, Nongovernmental
organizations asked health authorities to establish stringent measures to
ensure that the outbreak does not hit camps of flood survivors.
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