Zambia: Cholera Outbreak Rouses NCC

MARTIN NYIRENDA, our Times Features writer, recently visited some of the trading places in Ndola which are punctuated with heaps of garbage, clogged furrows impregnated with sometimes human waste and a mass of humanity operating in soiled surroundings. This is the striking account of what he saw and observed.

ACCORDING to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the first outbreak of cholera in Zambia was reported in 1977/1978, with other cases appearing in 1982/1983.

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