Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:08:18 +0000 By ANNIE ZULU PROVISION of decent shelter and related services for all remains crucial, if the cholera pandemic is to be eradicated completely in Zambia, Civic Forum on Housing and Habitat Zambia (CFHHZ) executive director Grace Mtonga has said. Ms Mtonga observed that the 2017/2018 cholera outbreak in the country had been severe in the informal settlements. She said this was because people in such areas lived in poor housing coupled with lack of access to clean water, little or no sanitation and absence of solid waste management. She told the Daily Nation in an interview that there was need for a permanent solution, as it drained the national treasury to respond to a disease that was avoidable if the citizens lived in healthy conditions. “These squalid conditions precipitated the disease outbreak that also claimed lives and this requires a permanent solution. We cannot continue as a country with […]
