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Cholera threatens Congo's capital as hundreds die from lack of treatment
10 January 2018
NELLIE PEYTON
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Democratic Republic of Congo is racing to contain a cholera outbreak that has swept through villages ravaged by conflict and is now spreading quickly in the overcrowded capital, officials and health workers said on Tuesday.
Cholera outbreaks occur regularly in the vast Central African country but this is the worst in more than 20 years, said Didier Bompangue, government coordinator for the elimination of cholera.
The disease has killed at least 1,190 people and spread to 24 of the country's 26 provinces since it broke out in July, the World Health Organisation said in a briefing. About 55,000 cases have been recorded.
Congo's main concern now is for the capital Kinshasa, a city of 12 million people with poor sanitation and lack of access to drinking water that facilitates the spread of the water-borne disease, Dr Bompangue told the Thomson Reuters Foundation...
Christian Heritage Walks
ANDREA ROBERTSON - REMIND MYSELF
Cholera threatens Congo's capital as hundreds die from lack of treatment
10 January 2018
NELLIE PEYTON
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Democratic Republic of Congo is racing to contain a cholera outbreak that has swept through villages ravaged by conflict and is now spreading quickly in the overcrowded capital, officials and health workers said on Tuesday.
Cholera outbreaks occur regularly in the vast Central African country but this is the worst in more than 20 years, said Didier Bompangue, government coordinator for the elimination of cholera.
The disease has killed at least 1,190 people and spread to 24 of the country's 26 provinces since it broke out in July, the World Health Organisation said in a briefing. About 55,000 cases have been recorded.
Congo's main concern now is for the capital Kinshasa, a city of 12 million people with poor sanitation and lack of access to drinking water that facilitates the spread of the water-borne disease, Dr Bompangue told the Thomson Reuters Foundation...
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