Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>ZIMBABWE has been struggling to contain the spread of a cholera outbreak, with the government announcing measures amid fears of a repeat of its 2008 outbreak that sparked a \u201cnational emergency\u201d.<\/p>\nCholera cases span all 10 of Zimbabwe\u2019s provinces, with the most alarming spikes in the south-eastern provinces of Masvingo and Manicaland, the epicentre of the crisis.<\/p>\n
The Cholera outbreak has killed more than 100 people and infected 5,000 since February, according to government estimates.<\/p>\n
To curb the spread, the government has imposed restrictions in vulnerable areas, limiting funerals to 50 people and forbidding attendees from shaking hands or serving food at the gatherings.<\/p>\n
Authorities are also discouraging people from frequenting open-air markets, unlicensed vendors, or outdoor church camps where sanitation is scarce.<\/p>\n
Cholera, a water-borne disease caused by ingesting contaminated food or water, often spreads quickly throughout Zimbabwe because of its poor sanitation infrastructure and limited clean water.<\/p>\n
Many Zimbabweans, especially in remote villages, stay without tap water for months at a time, forcing them to draw from unsafe wells or rivers. Raw sewage spilling from busted pipes and heaps of lingering refuse increase the risk of the disease spreading.<\/p>\n
The cholera problem is not new<\/b><\/p>\n
Zimbabweans say their struggles to access clean water or water-purification supplies have recently intensified, putting them at greater risk of catching the disease.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cholera problem is not new. We\u2019ve had it for a while but …There used to be health workers who would move around communities distributing water purification tablets that we could use to treat open wells. That isn\u2019t happening anymore,\u201d Answer Nyamukondiwa, a resident of Buhera, the hardest-hit city 250km (155 miles) away from the capital, told Al Jazeera TV.<\/p>\n
Other residents lamented the deterioration of safe boreholes, which are narrow water wells that some 38 percent of the population relies on for water.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not have enough boreholes,\u201d one woman in the eastern town of Murambinda told Al Jazeera TV.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is so much pressure on the few boreholes serving big villages. When these boreholes break down, people have no option [other] than to fetch water in the contaminated rivers. We need more boreholes. We are getting cholera when we drink contaminated water from the rivers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has acknowledged the country\u2019s infrastructure shortcomings and announced plans to drill more boreholes for each of the country\u2019s 35,000 villages in the next year.<\/p>\n
Zimbabwe\u2019s current cholera crisis is the worst since 2008, when some 4,000 civilians died in a nationwide outbreak that the government declared a \u201cnational emergency\u201d.<\/p>\n
Cholera is also a recurring problem in other nearby southern African states, including Malawi, South Africa, and Mozambique. Together, these countries and Zimbabwe have seen 1,000 of their citizens die from the disease since late 2022.<\/p>\n
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