via Diarrhoea claims 42 lives. Newsday 17 June 2014 by Feluna Nleya
June 17, 2014 in Health, National, News
FORTY-TWO people succumbed to diarrhoea last week, bringing the total of diarrhoea-induced deaths to 409 since the beginning of the year.
Feluna Nleya
Staff Reporter
According to the recent Health and Child Care ministry disease surveillance, 23 of the deaths were of children below the age of five years.
“The total diarrhoea cases reported this week are 12 438 cases and 42 deaths,” the report read.
“Of the reported cases, 8 245 and 23 deaths were from the under five years of age.”
Chiredzi district in Masvingo province recorded the highest number of deaths with 11, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (six), Chitungwiza Hospital and Gweru district recorded five deaths each while Harare Central Hospital had four deaths.
Sanyati and Bindura districts both recorded three deaths apiece, while Masvingo, Gokwe South, Shurugwi and Umguza districts recorded one death each.
The cumulative figure for diarrhoea cases since the beginning of the year now stands at 236 999 and 409 deaths. The ministry last week recorded 14 diarrhoea-
related deaths countrywide with children being the most affected.
The government recently launched a rota-virus vaccination programme to curb the spread of diarrhoea among children.
Meanwhile, the ministry said it had recorded four confirmed and two suspected typhoid cases in Harare, Nyanga and Chitungwiza.
The report also recorded 20 malaria deaths.
“A total of 14 087 malaria cases and 20 deaths were reported this week,” the report added.
“Of the cases reported, 2 345 and 11 deaths were under the age of five years.”
The cumulative figure for malaria was 425 444 cases and 515 deaths.
COMMENTS
In the mean time the head of state and government and commander in chief of the defence forces has been telling fellow clowns in Bolivia that he defeated sanctions….whatever that means. Lunatic.
We have sat on this health time-bomb for decades and now the nation is beginning to pay for it! We have known that there is no clean running water in all our major cities and towns for decades and have done nothing about it. Well diarrhoea is one of the many deadly illness take can spread very quickly and kill many, many lives.
Time is running out for Zimbabwe to force Mugabe out of office and so that the urgent business of rebuilding the nation’s economic can start. As long as Mugabe remains in State House this nation will continue to seat on time health bombs, economic bombs and political bombs – all primed to explode sooner rather latter.
The time bomb probably started with the cholera epidemic some years ago when do recall Botswana chipped in and because of the international exposure it got the MOH were trying to cover they tracks and as usual – we do not have money? but someone is flittering and fluttering to hospitals in Singapore another place to take Aldo EU Amb.
another place to take Aldo EU Ambassador