The Minister of Health and Child Care, Hon. Dr Douglas Mombeshora updated Cabinet on the Cholera challenges.
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In response to the cholera challenges, fourteen boreholes were drilled in Buhera; Chimanimani, 2; and Zaka, 8 through a borehole drilling project under the Ministry of Health and Child Care.
Cabinet reports that health education on cholera prevention and control measures, including hygiene promotion, is ongoing in provinces.
Health educators in affected communities have been trained to also facilitate surveillance and risk communication.
Door-to-door cholera campaigns are being made in the affected provinces.
Cabinet further reiterated additional measures as follows:
That continued intensified Risk Communication and Community engagement including involvement of religious and local leadership, intensified school health education on cholera and other diarrheal diseases and utilizing existing media houses and digital platforms for content dissemination is being accelerated;
That there will be improved safe water access to communities through rehabilitation of boreholes, and drilling boreholes; and
That public health measures will be enforced in all communities reporting cholera cases including restriction of gatherings in all cholera affected areas, and supervision of all burials in all cholera affected areas.
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