10-year plan to eliminate cholera

A 10-YEAR project plan to eliminate cholera in Zimbabwe has commenced, with Cholera Secretariat Zimbabwe, an organisation established to tackle long term causes of cholera, leading the campaign to end the disease by year 2028.

Speaking to NewsDay Weekender on the sidelines of a two-day workshop in Harare this week, chief executive officer of the secretariat, Farai Charasika, said the 10-year plan sought to eliminate cholera outbreaks countrywide.

“The workshop we are having today is part of a process in terms of coming up with a national plan of combating cholera in Zimbabwe, which is built around five
key points,” he said.

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