Mozambique: Cholera kills six in Changara ,Tete province

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Mozambique: Cholera kills six in Changara ,Tete province

6:28 CAT | 15 May 2025

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According to the local health authorities, six people have died of cholera in Changara district, in the central Mozambican province of Tete, since the start of the outbreak in that district last week.

Cited in Thursday’s issue of the independent daily “O Pais”, the head of the public health department in Tete, Helder Dombole, confirmed the outbreak. He said the first cases were reported from Temengau locality.

A total of 58 cholera cases have now been confirmed, most of them in the village of Campimbe. Four of the six deaths occurred in the local communities, and two in the Campimbe health unit. Dombole said they died because they arrived late at the health unit, when the disease was already at an advanced stage.

He said the main problem in Campimbe was that the villagers had lost their latrines, washed away in the recent heavy rains. As a result, they were now defecating in the open, “which favours transmission of the disease among households in the communities”.

Dombole said measures have been taken to avoid the spread of the disease to other parts of the province. “A cholera treatment centre was immediately opened inside the Temengau health unit, with the capacity for six beds”, he added. Health staff were allocated to the centre “and we were able to bring tents, medicines and individual protective equipment there in good time to care for the patients and to protect the colleagues who are looking after them”.

Source: AIM