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Topic started on 21-11-2008 @ 01:23 PM by Extralien

Cholera outbreak strikes Zimbabwe


news.bbc.co.uk
Nearly 300 people have died in Zimbabwe in recent weeks in a cholera outbreak which has hit about 6,000 people, the World Health Organization reports.

The UN body predicted the water-borne disease would continue to spread because of poor sanitation in the impoverished country's urban areas.

Many hospitals have shut down and most towns suffer from poor water supply, broken sewers and uncollected waste.

An outbreak of cholera on this scale is rare in Zimbabwe, correspondents say.
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 01:23 PM by Extralien
the total number of suspected cholera as of 18 November at 6,072 with 294 deaths. Zimbabwe's own government has reported fewer deaths, putting the figure at 90.

The country's Association of Doctors for Human Rights highlighted the dire state of a health service once widely admired in Africa.

"Our health delivery system, previously the envy of many developing countries, is now teetering on the verge of virtual collapse," it said.

"Sick people in need of medical attention are being turned away from Zimbabwe's hospitals and clinics."

Cholera-sufferers would be "coming to hospital to die because there is nobody to care for anyone"


So, why is it that after many years of charity donations and the like, that there is suddenly this outbreak.

Surely someone must have seen this potential hazard?

The WHO must have had some idea as to what was going on, or is it all part of yet another 'conspiratorial' dastardly plan to eradicate several thousand people in order to gain 'something'.

hoped food would soon be made available under the Reserve Bank's programme to ensure Zimbabweans had basic commodities.


Food! FOOD!... it's not food they need, its clean water and an approach by someone who cares about their environment and the plight of others. If these areas have seen Cholera outbreaks before, why, just why has nothing been done to ensure that it does not happen again.

Does it take a rocket scientist to decide that a clean water solution must be implemented?



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reply posted on 22-11-2008 @ 08:08 AM by Extralien
Zimbabwe refuses Annan group visa

"We had to cancel our visit because the government made it very clear that it will not cooperate," Mr Annan told a press conference in Johannesburg.

news.bbc.co.uk...

Well, that's a bit of a shame... But I'm not entirely sure as to what two people going to visit Nelson mandela's wife is going to do to help those who are in dire need of help right now...


reply posted on 22-11-2008 @ 08:30 AM by ChrisF231
reply to post by infinite


Exactly, Russia and China (not surprisingly) have alot of business interests in Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Police Force is trained by the Chinese People's Armed Police.

South Africa protects Mugabe because both Mugabe and the ANC are the same racist, Marxist Black Supremacist ilk and because fellow Africans see it as immoral to speak out against a fellow African leader as they would be seen as friendly with the West.
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