Typhoid case recorded in Mutare

MUTARE City Council’s health department has raised alarm bells and activated its disease surveillance system after it recorded one case of typhoid this week.

This came as the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) accused the government and Harare City Council of failing to come up with sustainable intervention measures to curb the typhoid outbreak.

Mathew Chiduka, a senior official at Mutare council’s health department, told management on Tuesday that the city was now on high alert for the waterborne disease, which has claimed two lives in Harare and left dozens others hospitalised.

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