Mopani Copper Mines has offered two Tipper trucks and a Loader to the Copperbelt Solid Waste Management Company for use in garbage collection in Wusakile and Chamboli Mine Townships, where 12 more cases of typhoid have been recorded in the past two weeks.
Speaking during the District Epidemic Preparedness Committee meeting at the Council Chamber yesterday, Kitwe District Commissioner, Macdonald Mtine urged Copperbelt Solid Waste Management Company to use the equipment effectively and unblock all sewer lines in the area,to stop typhoid and dysentery from spreading.
Mr. Mtine said Mopani Copper Mines was also carrying out a public sensitization campaign to educate the residents in the two areas on the dangers of dysentery and cholera.
He further said Mopani was also distributing free chlorine to members of the public in the two area to ensure that the community had access to safe and clean drinking water.
And earlier at the same function Kitwe district Health Director Dr Chikafuna Banda the ministry of health in Kitwe has recorded 12 more cases of typhoid in the last two weeks.
Dr Banda said 67 other cases were recorded for the period beginning October, November and December from Chamboli and Wusakile Mine Townships.
He said the latest figures involved five females, 2 infants and five males all from Wusakile and the surrounding areas.
He called on residents of Wusakile Mine Township with symptoms of typhoid to rush to the nearest medical centre as drugs to treat the disease were available in all health institutions.
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Oh no!
I bet we`ve heard this before.
These diseases are all due to poor hygiene. It’s about time we got rid of dirty surroundings for good!
Ba LT anyting new please. Cholera, Typhoid, AIDS ni normal now in Zed.
No one to blame.
Thats good Mopani.
Nine Chale congrats. l-)
But, I am sick of Typhoid, Cholera and the rest. If the government doesn`t want to take responsibility then lets accept its one of those things we have to live with.
3RqU good to see you mwana, careful with your congratulatories, walaleka wacite delete. Na ba shupa lelo ba LT!;)
I just wonder why we have the money for emergencies but never have the money to prevent them….anyway, we always have the money for coffins but never the money for medical check ups….its culture I guess????
Last time I head of this typhoid thing I was watching defiance the movie
Lomba nimumimba mwa kamwazi osati mumimba mwam’pweteteso. Yayi, nkhani yafika poipa.
the problem in wusakile is basically that people still use communal loos shared between 25 households. the worst hit area is D section between wusakile school and the hospital. typhoid thrives in conditions like this. mr bam’tine don’t just bwatabwata, convince nyamaz to do something about it.
Nine Chale have you seen Angela on the other side? :o:o:o:o:o
My God! I have to start thinking about going back to Zed I think.
Chamboli FTJs birth place
Bushe Typhod finshi…is it an STI…if so, vigololo muleke!
!14 Typhod nikutulula blood.
#15
Ohoo!
Then its like Cholera-cholera so…or dysentry-dysentry!
Anyway nikutulula fimo fimo
#11 AkANONO BA NEVERS, let’s be realistic and not be sensational,where is the input of PF councillors?they control kitwe city council. So instead of mentioning ba mtine you should have said DIVO KATETE.
Hygiene related diseases will never finish in Zambia as long the government does not implement laws or is it by-laws to stop people to chuff wherever they want.
Sensitization is not enough, impose fines on people found wanting then you will see how responsible everyone will be
People throw chuff anywhere and they know its wrong but they still do it because there is no law enforcement and no government to be scared of.
How come it is not been reported on bbc,sky,cnn and fox news?ohh i see,it is in Zambia not in Zimbabwe.
Ifiko mubu wuzakile na chamboli fyalichilamo, its high time people started taking care of thier homes, next area twalaumfwa ati mwa mulenga compound chorela.
Another unhygienic debilitating disease, of course water related too.
Hand washing is the most vital solution. 8-x8-x8-x*-:)
This does not sound good
Ya Zanda pa Zed ka?
Why do we have to wait until people fall sick or die to act on cleaning environments. These mines should take on more social responsibilities as was the case in the past.
Wusakile residents must be some of the unluckiest in the country. They live only a few hundred metres from the money making machine at Nkana Smelter, yet they live in some of the most deplorable conditions in entire country.
#18 Don`t yap about stuff you don`t know. Ask yourself why we neer used to cholera years back when Zambia was a bit stable. These diseases are due to lack of clean water (purified), dirty surroundings and yes personal hygiene.
Personal hygiene accounts for nothing if surroundings and water are not given attention. Make money available. When ZCCM was there these things were unheard of. :-@
LT do you censor some of us? i was trying to respond kuli ka #29 but it’s like you have spiked my script.you must be accomplices to mediocre thinking.the ka guy does not understand that after his ka auncle ka FTJ sold the mine houses all the services ZCCM used to provide in these komboni’s moved to the council.and who controls revenue collcted by kcc in these areas.isn’t it PF councillors.then who is supposed to provide the services?
Remember, Wusakile still exists with some of the biggest and most unhygienic communal pit laterines
ZCCM Always worked things right for all mine townships. Now we are reaping the fruits of privatization – we are poorer and now dying.
#32 walasa apo pena
point =d>
Yashani ba LT each I post my contribution to this blog,you do not post them.Nalabwelela Ku Bwanji community,where there is no ifyabupuba ifi mulechita ba LT.Mulemona kuti twapapa ka blog kena akacabecabe.Kwingi ukwakuya naya.
sorry I meant each time on top above.Kuti walufyanya umutima naukalimpasana bane.
This is were we full ourselves to say we are better oof than Zim. If it was this country in Zim position. No one will survive. Simple things are not done. Cleaning
You should visit Wusakile to what the real pic is. At one time when asked what those structure were fore one of our former presidents told his guest that they were for horses. The guest was very impressed that Zambians could own so many horses.
thank 2 mopan copper mine coz u can only defeat typoid by cleaning the area.
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