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Cholera Breaks Zimbabwe Hospitals

Zimbabwean hospitals “are literally not functioning” under a cholera outbreak that has infected more than 12,000 and killed close to 600 in the country, reports health minister David Parirenyatwa.

Some local health groups put the death toll closer to 1,000, but “determining the exact number of people who have died from cholera could be very difficult because of the information blackout that characterized the early days of the epidemic,” said Douglas Gwatidzo, chairman of a Zimbabwean doctors group.

“Management of water and sanitation is primary to the cholera problem,” Parirenyatwa said, adding that the water-borne disease will likely be accerbated during the April rainy season.

The country has declared a national emergency and appealed to the international community for medical supplies and food, as Zimbabwe’s inflation rate spirals to 231 percent. Free graves are being offered to victims of the cholera outbreak.

Doctors and nurses attempting to peacefully turn in a petition critical of the collapse of the Zimbabwean health system were beaten by Mugabe Regime riot police last Wednesday. “We are forced to work without basic health institutional needs like drugs, adequate water and sanitation, safe clothing gear, medical equipment and basic support services,” they said in a protest letter, signed by Amon Siveregi, chairman of Zimbabwe Doctors’ Association.

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