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‘Zimbabwe now sitting on a time bomb’… experts say of the worsening cholera flare-up

Brighton Muronzereyi

“Our water and sanitation situation is not good. The repair of sewer blockages takes time and so, sometimes the water is contaminated. Refuse is also not being collected regularly, which means flies are all over."

HEALTH experts are warning that the country is at risk of gravitating towards the 2008 cholera disaster which killed 4 000 people then. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Harare City Council (HCC) director for health services, Prosper Chonzi, said unless authorities came up with urgent solutions to the worsening epidemic, a major crisis was…

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