GOVT WILL COMBAT CHOLERA – STATE HOUSE

GOVERNMENT will do whatever it takes to bring the Cholera outbreak under control, State House Chief Communications Specialist Clayson Hamasaka has said.

Speaking to The Scoop, Mr. Hamasaka said the government was working round the clock to ensure that the deadly disease was contained.

He said the new dawn administration would soon find a lasting solution to the perennial disease.

“Our major preoccupation is on providing a lasting solution to the prevention of the perennial disease. Commencing the local manufacturing of cholera vaccine and constructing permanent cholera management centres closer to the communities will address the pressing issue,” he said.

He stated that President Hakainde Hichilema and his government sympathized with the families whose loved ones were admitted to the center, including those who lost the fight against the cholera disease.

“Our hearts as Government bleed for the lives that have been lost due to the pandemic,” he said.

Mr. Hamasaka however called for strict adherence to preventive measures against the cholera outbreak that has continued to wreak and ravage the country’s major flood prone areas.

“We urge all citizens to take seriously the precautions prescribed by the ministry of health for the safety of our loved ones and indeed for our own safety. We shall continue to preach on the adherence of handwashing, desisting from using contaminated water from shallow wells and drinking boiled and treated water which is critical in containing the deadly disease,” he said.

He said it was worrying that a section of unscrupulous individuals were taking the disease lightly by a misleading narrative that an infamous illicit brew famously known as kachasu had the medicinal ability needed to prevent and cure the deadly disease, when not.

He advised all members of the public to restrain from such misleading narratives as their lives were important to take such risks.

“It is not advisable to self-prescribe drugs for oneself especially for such a disease which has claimed a number of lives. We call upon the public to only follow the prescription by the ministry of health before we lose many lives,” he said.