It’s the same old tune from government officials in Zim blaming this particular outbreak on Western economic sanctions. If you can dry that one out, you can fertilize the lawn.
The BBC:
The number of people being infected with cholera is rising and nearly 9,000 cases have now been confirmed, the United Nations says.
Aid agency Oxfam earlier called on Zimbabwe’s government to declare a national health emergency.
It said ordinary Zimbabweans were desperately short of food, health care, clean water and safe sanitation, and the crisis is set to worsen significantly in December.
The economy is in free fall, with inflation last listed in July at 231,000,000%.
“The situation is under control, there is no need to declare it [an emergency],” Zimbabwean Deputy Health Minister Edwin Muguti told AFP news agency on Wednesday. ”These are results of punitive illegal sanctions imposed on us by the West… I am sure they like what they are seeing from this outbreak.”
Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights believes many people are dying at home where they are not being treated.
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