Statistics don’t lie, they are hard facts. From an average of 13 new cases a day in February 2018 to around 5 cases a day now is factual evidence that the Government has done and it continues to do all it can, to address the cholera outbreak. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease that can […]
Zomba District Health Office (DHO) has expressed concern after noting that some people are vandalizing chlorine buckets installed near water facilities thinking they contain family planning contraceptives. District Health Officer, Raphael Piringu raised the concern Monday in an interface meeting with the media. The buckets were erected by Evidence Action as one way of ensuring […]
It was soon after she had a bath in the lake that she started to complain of stomach pains. No sooner than we thought of ignoring her complaint than she started purging and vomiting. In 30 minutes time, things became worse. We then realized it was persistent diarrhoea and vomiting and the girl became so […]
A man and his son died of cholera Friday bringing death toll in Karonga District alone to seven as the spread of the disease continues to worsen. Karonga District Hospital Environmental Health Officer, Lewis Tukula confirmed the deaths saying the two died in their shack at one of the fishing camps along the shores of […]
Karonga District Commissioner (DC) Richard Hara has cautioned people not to be negligent in hygiene practices following cholera vaccination campaign underway in the district. Speaking during a monitoring visit to some sites where the cholera vaccine campaign is taking place Hara said the vaccine should not be taken as a license to continuing practicing unhygienic […]
Minister of Health, Atupele Muluzi has confirmed that Cholera death toll has risen to 10 after the death of one person in Lilongwe in the early hours of Tuesday . Cholera is a water-borne diarrhoeal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated, but is easily cured with oral rehydration, intravenous fluids and antibiotics. […]
Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi has laid emphasis on bringing about a sustained behaviour change in the local communities to achieve the target of making the villages, towns and districts Open Defecation Free (ODF) to deal with the cholera situation in the country, which so far has claimed six lives. Muluzi said it is time Malawians start to […]
Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi on Friday update Malawi Parliament on the cholera situation in the country, which so far has claimed six lives. Muluzi told the House that the main strategy for cholera control remains use of safe and potable water, good sanitation, and personal hygiene. He literally explained how people in impoverished areas can have […]
UNICEF Malawi has intensified its response towards the rise of cholera cases in the capital Lilongwe through, among others, the provision of alternative safe water sources. Malawi has registered about 349 cases, with 75 in Lilongwe alone in the last two months. 11 cases have been registered in the last two weeks. “UNICEF is working […]
The number of Cholera cases recorded in Nsanje district has reached six barely two days after Nsanje District Health Office (DHO) confirmed two cases. Nsanje District Health Office Public Relations Officer (PRO), Felix Simbi said the infected are three people from one family and the other three are their neighbors’ in the area of Traditional […]
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in the country has risen as Ministry of Health has confirmed. This follows the death of one more person on Tuesday, while 11 new cases have been recorded in the capital city and that there 15 people in the cholera treatment quarantine. Cumulatively, the number of those who […]
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (Adra) Malawi has donated assorted items to Tsabango Health Centre in Lilongwe due to a cholera outbreak that has hit the area. ADRA Malawi Regional Administrator, Dyson Mbengo said they saw the need to make the donation because they work in the communities that have been affected, Tsabango being […]
The Ministry of Health has said the cases of the deadly waterborne disease cholera in the country has not reached the extent where people can stop common practices such as the handshake, which can help spread diseases. Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) proposed a ban of handshakes in the country to contain further spread of the […]
Malawi Red Cross Society has intensified door to door community mobilization on Cholera outbreak in Karonga and has engaged volunteers and health surveillance assistants (HSAs). The volunteers were trained and oriented in Community Mobilization through door to door visits. According to MRCS Assistant Disaster Management Manager Roster Kufandiko, European Union Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection […]
At 14, Mercy knows what the remote lakeside population appears not to worry about. “Even adults defaecate in the open,” says the girl from Kakhongwe in Traditional Authority Mankhambira, Nkhata Bay. “When I’m pressed, I just go to the lake and pretend to swim when actually I’m relieving myself.” People in the strip along the […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) authorities have with immediate effect banned the sale of ready to eat foods as a response to the outbreak of cholera which has hit some parts of the country. In a press statement released on Thursday, signed by BCC Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Alfred Chanza it outlined that due to the […]
Rumphi District Council says it intends to ban sale of certain food items and close down filthy drinking joints to prevent cholera outbreak. Rumphi District Council’s Director of Planning and Development, Frank Mkandawire said in an interview Thursday that the Council is prepared to help the district’s health office to prevent the disease that has […]
Stakeholders have ganged up to scale up efforts in the fight against cholera that has affected a number of districts in the country. Briefing members of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) district coordination team in Lilongwe, Director of Planning and Development for Lilongwe District Council, Douglas Moffat said it was encouraging to note that several […]