10 April 2008
Lubango — At least fourteen people died by cholera in the Southern Huila province, in a total of 1,297 cases diagnosed by the health authorities in the first quarter of this year, Angop has learnt from the head of the public health and diseases control department, Barnabé Lemos.
According to the source, 60 per cent of deaths occurred in Lubango city, the most affected region of Huila province, whereas the other 40 percent in Matala, Quipungo and Chibia districts.
Bernabé Lemos advanced that from these cases, 1,244 people were completely healed and 40 confined in the disease treatment advanced medical centres around the central hospital of Lubango and Chibia hospitals.
The official said that in the last 24 hours were registered new 14 cases, of which 11 occurred in Lubango and three in Chibia, where 28 people were discharged from the hospital and 40 confined, without registering any death.
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