Zimbabwe: 2012 Diarrhea outbreaks

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Source: http://www.zimeye.org/?p=43394

Diarrhoea outbreak hits Warren Park
Published: January 4, 2012


Warren Park 1 has been hit by a diarrhoea outbreak with over 200 people from the suburb treated in the past four days.

No fatalities were reported.

It is suspected that a contaminated borehole from which the residents draw drinking water was to blame...

 

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Suspected diahorrea outbreak in Kuwadzana

The Harare Residents? Trust (HRT) is alarmed at the rate of suspected cholera outbreaks in residential areas, with the latest reports indicating that there is an outbreak in Kuwadzana and surrounding areas.
20.01.1203:48pm 0 0
by Harare Residents? Trust

Residents in the area are reported to have been drinking water from the borehole at their local clinic. Suspicions are that the borehole water may be contaminated, something the HRT has not yet verified with authorities. But residents have stopped drinking water from that borehole.

This morning, Thursday 19 January 2012, almost 40 residents experienced severe stomach aches which forced them to visit Kuwadzana Clinic which is the only clinic servicing Kuwadzana, Crowborough, Kuwadzana Extension, Whitecliff and surrounding areas.

A few nurses were available and the accounts clerk was reported to have gone away for tea for almost two hours. The immediate assumption was that the staff at the clinic was on strike...

 

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Zimbabwe: Diarrhoea Kills Three
Tagged: Environment, Health, Southern Africa, Water, Zimbabwe
BY ROSEMARY CHINAMASA, 5 SEPTEMBER 2012

THREE people died of common diarrhoea and more than 7 000 others, mostly children, were treated of the disease throughout the country last week alone. According to the latest weekly report from the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, one of the dead was a child under five years. Of the 7 285 reported cases, 4 236 were children under five years.

"The provinces which reported the highest number of diarrhoea cases are Manicaland and Masvingo," said the ministry.

Meanwhile, 50 new cases of suspected typhoid were reported in Chitungwiza last week alone.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201209050194.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Zimbabwe: Diarrhoea Kills 265 People
6 DECEMBER 2012

At least 265 people, mostly children under five years, died from common diarrhoea this year out of more than 428 000 cases of the disease recorded countrywide. Health and Child Welfare Minister Henry Madzorera said on Tuesday that out of the cases, 10 688 of them and seven deaths were recorded last week.

Minister Madzorera was updating journalists in Harare on the state of diarrhoea, typhoid and other enteric diseases ahead of the festive season.

"We have 428 894 reported cases of common diarrhoea countrywide and it is from these cases that we have recorded 265 deaths," Minister Madzorera said.

"Of the reported cases during the week ending November 18, 5 196 cases and five deaths were from children under the age of five.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201212060906.html

 

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Diarrhoea cases soar
December 6, 2012 in Health, National, News

CASES of diarrhoea are on the increase in Zimbabwe owing to the deteriorating sanitation conditions in the country, Health and Child Welfare minister Henry Madzorera has said.

Report by Garikai Tunhira

Giving an update on the outbreaks of typhoid, cholera and diarrhoeal diseases in Harare on Tuesday, the minister said the majority of cases and deaths had been recorded among children under the age of five.

Madzorera said it would be difficult with the high number of diarrhoea cases to meet the United Nations? Millennium Development Goal number four and urged communities to take caution during the rainy season.

?As we approach the critical period which will coincide with the festive season, I remind all Zimbabweans to take extra caution to avoid falling victim to typhoid, cholera and other enteric diseases,? he said.

?The determinants of these preventable, but highly transmissible and fatal diseases remain largely unaddressed in that sustained provision of adequate and safe water is not guaranteed for both urban and rural communities.

?Sewerage and solid waste is also poorly processed and managed in all the major urban areas.?
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http://www.newsday.co.zw/2012/12/06/diarrhoea-cases-soar/