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Grappling with Lukanga Swamps cholera outbreaks
Posted in Editor's Choice, Features on November 25, 2016 by Web Editor
CHAMBO NG?UNI, Kabwe
?LUKANGA Swamps have become a sewerage pond. At the moment, we are eating fish from a sewer.?
This is how Kabwe Municipal Council director of public health Paul Mukuka recently described the sanitation situation in the Lukanga Swamps in Kapiri Mposhi district following the latest outbreak of cholera.
Mr Mukuka expressed these worries at a recent Central Province epidemic preparedness prevention and control management committee meeting held in Kabwe where various stakeholders deliberated on what could be the lasting solution to the recurrent outbreaks of cholera in the swamps.
In justifying why an early fishing ban needs to be imposed as a plausible measure to control cholera in the fishing camps in the swamps, Mr Mukuka said other than in the swamps, the disease is also a threat to human life in other areas in Kapiri Mposhi, Kabwe and Chibombo districts.
?We can?t talk of sanitation in the Lukanga Swamps, we can?t talk of putting up toilets there, there is nowhere to build toilets,? he pointed out.
Mr Mukuka said an early fishing ban could be a practical solution to the frequent outbreaks of cholera in the Lukunga Swamps.
In 2013, Kapiri Mposhi recorded 47 cases of cholera, 41 cases in 2014 and there was no outbreak in 2015.
Most of the cases were recorded in the Lukanga Swamps.
Since September 11 this year, Central Province has recorded 36 cases, and of these, 27 have been documented at Waya Rural Health Centre in Lukanga area, five in Kapiri Mposhi urban and three in Kabwe.
Twenty-seven patients were admitted to Waya Rural Health Centre, two died while 25 were discharged after undergoing treatment...
Grappling with Lukanga Swamps cholera outbreaks
Posted in Editor's Choice, Features on November 25, 2016 by Web Editor
CHAMBO NG?UNI, Kabwe
?LUKANGA Swamps have become a sewerage pond. At the moment, we are eating fish from a sewer.?
This is how Kabwe Municipal Council director of public health Paul Mukuka recently described the sanitation situation in the Lukanga Swamps in Kapiri Mposhi district following the latest outbreak of cholera.
Mr Mukuka expressed these worries at a recent Central Province epidemic preparedness prevention and control management committee meeting held in Kabwe where various stakeholders deliberated on what could be the lasting solution to the recurrent outbreaks of cholera in the swamps.
In justifying why an early fishing ban needs to be imposed as a plausible measure to control cholera in the fishing camps in the swamps, Mr Mukuka said other than in the swamps, the disease is also a threat to human life in other areas in Kapiri Mposhi, Kabwe and Chibombo districts.
?We can?t talk of sanitation in the Lukanga Swamps, we can?t talk of putting up toilets there, there is nowhere to build toilets,? he pointed out.
Mr Mukuka said an early fishing ban could be a practical solution to the frequent outbreaks of cholera in the Lukunga Swamps.
In 2013, Kapiri Mposhi recorded 47 cases of cholera, 41 cases in 2014 and there was no outbreak in 2015.
Most of the cases were recorded in the Lukanga Swamps.
Since September 11 this year, Central Province has recorded 36 cases, and of these, 27 have been documented at Waya Rural Health Centre in Lukanga area, five in Kapiri Mposhi urban and three in Kabwe.
Twenty-seven patients were admitted to Waya Rural Health Centre, two died while 25 were discharged after undergoing treatment...