On Monday, Zimbabwe has received a $1 million grant from the African Development Bank (AfDb) to combat a deadly cholera outbreak that began three months ago.
Damoni Kitabire, AfDB country manager, said that the grant would be distributed through the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Kitabire said: “In our view, this is a crisis worth...
Zimbabwe - According to state media, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and members of his cabinet received doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) to encourage people in areas being targeted by health officials to get vaccinated.
“Mnangagwa said it is necessary for people to get the dose as a prevention measure,’’...
Zimbabwe - On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that at least 45 people have been killed by cholera in the country for the past three weeks.
It said that an oral vaccine campaign was due to begin shortly with 450,000 people targeted in the worst-affected suburbs of the capital...
On Friday, the Yobe government has confirmed 906 fresh cases of cholera with 61 deaths and 50 others still on admission in hospitals across the state.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Muhammad Kawuwa, has made this known in a statement on Friday, in Damaturu.
He said Acute Water Diarrhea (AWD) cases...
Algeria - Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform, Mokhtar Hasbellaoui, has asserted that the Cholera epidemic will be eradicated in just three days.
Hasbellaoui has assured the public that the ministry would do all in power to eliminate cholera in the coming days and before the start of the new school...
According to the records of the Kano State Government, about 400 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhea with 50 confirmed cases of cholera across the 33 local government areas of the state in the last seven months were verified.
Dr. Kabiru Getso, Health Commissioner revealed this to Kano reporters last Tuesday,...
Oyo State chapter of Action Democratic Party (ADP) has warned over imminent outbreak of cholera and other diseases that can cause untimely deaths in Ibadan, the state capital.
According to a signed statement by its Director of Publicity, Alhaja Omolola Adiamo, a copy which was obtained by DAILY POST on Monday,...
