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12 Deaths Recorded as Diarrhoea Cases Rise in Zimbabwe
Marvellous Mhlanga-Nyahuye
11.05.2015 19:23
WASHINGTON—
The Ministry of Health says diarrheal cases are going up in Zimbabwe with the weekly surveillance report showing that 12 people have died of the disease in the past few weeks with Mashonaland Central being hardest hit.
According to a report in the Herald newspaper, five of the deaths reported were from children under the age of five. To date, 183 people have succumbed to the disease since the beginning of the year.
Diarrhoea, typhoid cases rise
June 3, 2015 in News
The continued rise in diarrhoea and new suspected typhoid cases in Harare are indications that issues of hygiene and access to clean potable water are still out of reach for many residents with many resorting to unprotected sources.
By Phyllis Mbanje
Mushrooming of food vendors has also raised questions on improper handling of food items, which are being cooked and sold on street pavements with no checks whatsoever in place.
A recent weekly disease surveillance report from the Ministry of Health for the week ending May 17, indicated there were 9 985 cases of diarrhoea reported in that week and six deaths. As of that same date since the beginning of the year, over 190 000 cases had been reported and 197 people died from diarrhoea.
Under the same period, there were 36 new suspected cases of typhoid, and 33 of those were in Harare with the remaining from Nyanga district.
This brings the number of people who have died of diarrhoea this year to 211. According to the ministry' weekly disease update, Midlands is the hardest hit.
By Lisa Shirichena
TWELVE people died of diarrhoea countrywide last week, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said yesterday. This brings the number of people who have died of diarrhoea in the first half of the year to 234 out of the 227 968 reported cases. According to the ministry weekly disease update, Manicaland is hardest hit.
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