How much Mugabe loves his people - Cholera epidemic
I'm really beginning to loathe this person. From the
UK Telegraph:
Hundreds die of cholera in Zimbabwe
Hundreds of people are dying of cholera in Zimbabwe amid an epidemic that President Robert Mugabe is trying to cover up.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt that dozens of people have died from the outbreak in the last two weeks alone.
With the country's infrastructure neglected for years by Mr Mugabe's government, large sections of Harare rely on standpipes and wells for water, increasing the risk of infection.
Most government medical staff downed what few tools they had last month to protest at the lack of medicines and equipment in state hospitals, leaving only only army doctors are available to treat the sick.
In Budiriro, a small, poverty-stricken township in the west of the capital, a policeman outside the local Polyclinic said more than 60 people had died in the last two weeks.
The perimeter fence was covered in plastic, preventing outsiders from looking in as many, including private doctors and some donors, accuse the government of grossly under-reporting cholera deaths. It says there have been 80 in the entire country.
A long-serving doctor in Harare said that the epidemic in the townships was the worst in living memory.
"It will get worse as the rains come," he said as the first summer showers drenched the city. "The laboratories are overwhelmed."
People have known about the link between bad water and Cholera since 1854 when
Dr. John Snow removed the pump handle of the Broad Street well. Why water isn't being trucked in for these poor people is beyond me.
I trust there is a very special place in Hell for the likes of Mugabe...
Posted by DaveH at November 19, 2008 1:46 PM
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