{"id":85390,"date":"2023-10-24T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/diarrhoea-is-hitting-zimbabwes-young-children-hard-and-thats-before-the-rains-come"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T12:26:26","slug":"diarrhoea-is-hitting-zimbabwes-young-children-hard-and-thats-before-the-rains-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/diarrhoea-is-hitting-zimbabwes-young-children-hard-and-thats-before-the-rains-come","title":{"rendered":"Diarrhoea is hitting Zimbabwe\u2019s young children hard \u2013 and that\u2019s before the rains come"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Clean water shortages in townships across Zimbabwe and old, rusty water pipes could increase the severity of waterborne diseases as the rainy season, often characterised by flooding, approaches.<\/p>\n

For Stanley Chuma, a vendor who rents a room in Cowdray Park, one of Bulawayo\u2019s densely populated townships, the rains present a time bomb.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some sections, people are resorting to open wells because there\u2019s been no water reaching us for more than two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine the dirt that you find in open sources. Rains will bring more dirty water to wells because, in some places, particularly in bushy areas, there\u2019s open defecation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Five litres of purified water cost about R38, he says, making it too expensive to cook with regularly. And some can\u2019t afford to pay that much for drinking water either.<\/p>\n

Sources from the local authority, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), said the problem in Cowdray Park is a result of a pump failure, which was being fixed by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

Things are worse in Harare, where some parts have gone for more than 20 years without clean running water.<\/p>\n

In 2008, a devastating cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe set the record as Africa\u2019s worst, with 4 200 dead.<\/p>\n

Cholera is now considered endemic in the capital, which struggles with obsolete water infrastructure, a ballooning population, severe droughts, and pervasive government corruption and mismanagement.<\/p>\n

The most recent waterborne disease outbreak comes at a time when there\u2019s political bickering in the government and local authorities between the ruling Zanu-PF and the main opposition, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).<\/p>\n

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, writing in the state-controlled Sunday Mail, said the cholera situation was to be blamed on poorly run local authorities and the \u201cgovernment will not hesitate to intervene to protect lives as part of broad strategic interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also vowed to drill 35 000 boreholes across the country before year end.<\/p>\n

According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care\u2019s weekly disease surveillance report released last week, cholera, typhoid, dysentery, and malaria are on the rise across the country.<\/p>\n

For the week ending 8 October, the latest figures from the health ministry show 8 873 common diarrhoea cases and six deaths.<\/p>\n

Of the reported cases, 3 863, or some 44%, were among children under 5 years of age.<\/p>\n

The provinces that reported the highest number of cases were Mashonaland East Province, with 1 632, and Manicaland Province, with 1 386.<\/p>\n

The ministry said there have been 275 385 cases and 208 deaths from common diarrhoea cumulatively.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Clean water shortages in townships across Zimbabwe and old, rusty water pipes could increase the severity of waterborne diseases as the rainy season, often characterised by flooding, approaches. For Stanley Chuma, a vendor who rents a room in Cowdray Park, one of Bulawayo\u2019s densely populated townships, the rains present a time bomb. 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