Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:17:50 +0000 By CHIKUMBI KATEBE CHOLERA vaccination has started today with over two million people targeted in the epi centres of Kanyama and Chipata compounds respectively, says Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya. And 55 children have been admitted to the Heroes Stadium cholera treatment centre after they tested positive with vibrio cholera as at 08:00 hours yesterday. Dr Chilufya said in response to the cholera outbreak that has ravaged the country for the last three months, Government commences vaccination of its citizens to be launched with concentration on Old Kanyama which has presented the highest number of infections and deaths so far. He said the vaccination exercise scheduled to be launched in Kanyama today was expected to go on for at least 10 days while Government continued to implement other high impact interventions to help rid the capital of cholera. “Our mapping does show that a number of cases continue to […]
