Benguela — Seven hundred and 92 cases of cholera, from which 22 resulted in deaths, were registered last January by the provincial health department in the nine districts of the southern Benguela province.

The fact was revealed by the health director in Benguela, António Bento who was speaking in the first meeting of the health sub-group that includes the technical co-ordination of humanitarian aid and partners of the sector, in which he expressed worry with the spreading of the cholera epidemics in the province.

The source stressed that the situation in worrying, thereby, greater attention should be paid to the disease, apart from other endemic illness existing in Benguela.