Population being misled about cholera

It is increasingly becoming clear that the Zimbabwean population does not have an understanding of the magnitude of the cholera epidemic that is taking its toll on the populace.

The Zanu PF administration is misleading the people through withholding information and this will subsequently result in more people unnecessarily losing their lives through negligence.

An acquaintance of mine in Mabvuku, one of the areas were a potential outbreak will cause disaster due to a collapse of the sewer system and unavailability of water, told me that its life as usual for residents as they go about their day to day business with no particular care being taken to avert an impending outbreak of the deadly cholera disease.

If residents had an understanding of the dire circumstance we all face then preventative action like practicing thorough hygiene would be taken. But information on the number of actual dead is not being shared as the magnitude of the outbreak continues to be downplayed, despite the fact that hundreds of people have already died and millions more are at risk.

The water crisis has worsened conditions, with most suburbs going without water for months on end, ripening conditions for the spread of the deadly disease.

The declaration of a national health emergency by the current administration is long over-due and will avert the unnecessary deaths of more people from the deadly illness.

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