Let’s avoid cholera recurrence - Veep
WE need to change our attitude towards indiscriminate dumping of waste to avoid cholera recurrence, Vice President, Inonge Wina has advised.
Ms Wina said cholera outbreak was largely due to poor solid waste management disposal systems, adding that until there was a change of mind-set citizens would continue to suffer at the hands of the epidemic.
The Vice President observed that drainages were the worst breeding places of all sorts of diseases because almost everything was being thrown in there increasing the chances of a cholera outbreak.
She made the remarks in Matero Constituency on Saturday in a speech read by National Coordinator of Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU), Yande Mwape, at the launch of Matero ward 28, Keep Zambia Clean Green and Healthy (KZCGH) project.
“We should be responsible for our actions and never wait for the local authorities that are already over stretched with their little resources,” she said.
She encouraged the corporate world who had taken part in the campaign to create a bond between themselves and the community they had vested business interest and that it should not only end after the launch.
And Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company Managing Director, Jonathan Kampata pledged the water utility’s firm of improving the quality of water supply in Matero Township.
Meanwhile Matero ward 28 councillor, Annie Chinyanta, said as a civic leader, she had followed President Edgar Lungu’s directive that whilst conducting party mobilisation, she should also ensure that the KZCGH campaign was on course.
Ms Chinyanta said she took advantage of the industries that were in her ward to help her clean the ward to reduce the high risks of cholera outbreaks which were looming in her ward.
The civic leader urged the performance contractors to desist from piling garbage by the road side after removing it from the drainages because the habit encouraged the community to throw solid waste at the same area.
We should be responsible for our actions and never wait for the local authorities that are already over stretched with their little resources.