Kipindupindu (Cholera) Dar es Salaam

Jamani, ugonjwa wa kipindupindu umeingia tena Dar es Salaam. Kuna shida kubwa mno ya maji jijini. Watu wameongezeka lakini uwezo wa kuleta maji safi ya kutosha haipo. Watu wananunua maji ya kunywa na ya mahitaji ya nyumbani nk. kuoga, kuflashi vyoo. Lakini je, hayo maji wanoletewa ni masafi? Kuna watu wanaopitsiha maji na videbe kwenye mikokoteni, je, ni masafi? Hapo zamani za kale, eheee, uliweza kunywa maji ya bomba mjini Dar es Salaam. Hivi sasa huwezi maana watu wametoboa mabomba na mauchafu yanaingia kwenye maji! Uchafu kutoka kwenye vyoo vya shimo unaingia humo pia! Mungu Atunusuru!

Je, serikali ina mpango gani wa kuleta maji safi ya kutosha kwa wakazi wa Dar es Salaam?

******************************************************************************
Kutoka ippmedia.com

10th November 2009

18 admitted to special camps

At least 18 people in Dar es Salaam suffering from cholera, have been admitted to a special camp set up to control the disease.

Dar es Salaam City’s acting chief medical officer; Dr Hawa Kawawa said yesterday that the patients have been hospitalized in three special camps for people who have contracted cholera.
She said that the affected patients come from Temeke, Ilala and Kinondoni municipalities.
She said that one patient is from Ilala, seven are from Kinondoni and ten are from From Temeke.

“We have decided to introduce these three special camps which deal with cholera in each municipality, where full time medical doctors have been deployed,” said Kawawa.
The camps are located at Tambuka Reli in Temeke, Buguruni in Ilala and Mburahati in Kinondoni.
She said the patients were from Tabata, Tegeta-Kibaoni,Makurumla, Mburahati , Tandale, Magomeni, Tuangoma,
Tandika and Maguruwe.
According to her, medicines were available to treat the patients.
The official further underscored the need for extensive awareness campaign to address the problem, in the country’s metropolitan city.
She said the city council will introduce house-to-house inspections to ensure that surroundings were clean.
“I urge Dar es Salaam dwellers to ensure that their homes are clean all the time. And those whose surroundings would be found to be dirty would face serious consequences,” she stressed.
It was reported recently that at least 59 people have died of the disease in the past two months in the country, with the most affected being the north-eastern coastal region of Tanga.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN