Sumbe — The Red Cross of Angola (CVA) in coastal Kwanza Sul province intensified in the past days the awareness campaign against cholera to enable the population to acquire knowledge on the cares with the disease.

Speaking to ANGOP this Saturday, the co-ordinator of CVA's programme of combat to cholera, Agostinho Kaquinda considered necessary that the population learns about the first symptoms of the disease and head urgently to health centres or hospitals nearest to the community.

The source added that the activists are distributing chlorine and lixivium to consumers of tank water, so as to disinfect the water, as well as some water reservoirs.

This Saturday, CVA treated 69,889 litres of water in individual and family containers at 12 water centres installed along Cambongo River.

The institution is working with 52 voluntary staffs who have been working with the population, having already visited 3,396 residences, in the wards of Chingo and Salinas.

ANGOP learnt from a source of the region's public health sector that during the month of January the province registered seven cases of cholera without deaths.