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Zimbabwe government sets aside US$100 000 to fight cholera
ZimOnline
January 16, 2006

http://www.zimonline.co.za/headdetail.asp?ID=11449

HARARE – The Zimbabwe government has set aside US$100 000 to fight a cholera outbreak that has so far killed 14 people countrywide.

Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo told the press at the weekend that the money will be spent on fuel for refuse trucks and the building of sanitary facilities at local markets in a bid to contain the crisis.

The Ministry of Health last week shut down the sprawling Mbare Musika market in a bid to contain the disease which spreads easily under unhygienic conditions.

Harare residents blame the cholera outbreak on sewage that flows in the city and heaps of uncollected garbage following a six-year fuel crisis has grounded most refuse trucks.

Zimbabwe’s health delivery system is in shambles after six years of severe economic recession and mismanagement by President Robert Mugabe's government.

But Mugabe denies ruining the country blaming the country's problems on sabotage by Britain and Western countries for seizing farms from whites for redistribution to landless blacks six years ago. - ZimOnline

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