ZAMBIA ON CHOLERA ALERT

Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya says Zambia has heightened its surveillance machine for any diarrhoeal illness in witness of the outbreak of cholera in neighbouring Zimbabwe.
Dr. Chilufya says Zimbabwe has been hit onerous by Cholera and that Zambia must indifferent no longer relax its surveillance.
He modified into as soon as talking to ZNBC news in Lusaka.
Dr. Chilufya observes that Zambia shares a long border with Zimbabwe hence the must give a enhance to measures.
The Minister has appealed to participants of the public to agree with definite they provide a enhance to and defend excessive standards of hygiene so that the country does NOT absorb a repeat of the final cholera outbreak.
He defined that participants must indifferent agree with definite they wash their hands with soap sooner than touching foods and drinks chlorinated or water that has been boiled.
Profitable statistics obtained from the Ministry of Health level to that a hundred and fourteen of us died from cholera countrywide in the final outbreak.