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Cholera killed 108 people between January and October in Mozambique, down from 198 in the same period last year when 306 people died, health officials have reported.
Speaking to the press in Maputo, the head of the Ministry of Health’s Epidemiology Department, Lorna Gurjal, said that in the first ten months of this year, 492,152 cases were reported, compared to 591,683 cases registered from January to October 2016.
Gurjal said that a cholera epidemic broke out in Memba district, Nampula province, northern Mozambique, last August, and one person died out of a total of 109 cases.
Referring to the rainy season, which starts in October in Mozambique and runs through to March, the head of the Ministry of Health’s Epidemiology Department warned of the risk for diarrhoea diseases and malaria outbreaks
“With the increase of these diseases, there is usually a greater flow of patients to health units, which can increase health-care waiting times,” she said.
Health authorities had distributed 13 million mosquito nets for malaria prevention, she added.
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