Health crisis looms in zimbabwe

  1. Posted on Thursday 25 September 2008 - 11:45
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    Conrad Dube Mwanawashe AfricaNews reporter in Harare, Zimbabwe
    Failure to treat and pump adequate supplies of water has left many urban homes dry and forced residents to rely on unsafe supplies of water, ZADHR said in statement. "This coupled with a breakdown in the sanitation system is threatening the health of millions of Zimbabweans, it added.
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    It said the new government must address this crisis as a matter of urgency and that it was not adequate for the health ministry to respond to disease outbreak only after it had occurred.

    “Lives have already been lost to cholera in Chitungwiza and health centres in Harare and Bulawayo are burdened by numerous cases of diarrhea on a daily basis. It is likely that the number of deaths in Chitungwiza, currently reported at 12 individuals, is much higher, and that this is but the tip of an iceberg of much more morbidity,” said the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights.

    The doctors association called for an urgent, coordinated and comprehensive response from the new government to the health crisis in water and sanitation saying this is a matter which cannot wait for resolution of differences or ‘sticking points’.

    “Public service provision has been inadequate for several years and requires urgent and comprehensive remedial action,” the association said.

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