Harare – Health authorities say the first person has died from cholera in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare after outbreaks elsewhere in the country.
At least 27 people have died from cholera, mostly in impoverished districts, across the country in recent weeks and hundreds have been treated for the highly infectious intestinal disease spread by contaminated food and water.
Doctors have reported at least 120 preventable deaths from cholera and diarrhoea this year as sewer and drainage service collapse in the nation’s economic meltdown.
Infrastructure has been left to crumble for months with politicians deadlocked first over disputed elections and now over forming a power sharing government. – AP
For how can this humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe be allowed to carry on? As politicians continue to dilly dally on the way forward many more citizens of Zimbabwe are going to die. Do these politicians care about the welfare of the people? Hell NO! They have eyes to see, but they pretend to be blind to all the suffering in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe’s politicians should be tried in the international courts for crimes against humanity, they are a disgrace and a cruel lot!
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