Imtiaz Sooliman – End the cholera outbreak Three family members die of cholera in Verdefort
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The conversation is about the potential for cholera to spread quickly in various areas of the country due to drought and shortages of water. The speakers discuss the possibility of a national disaster and the need for more information about the source of water. They also mention the deaths of several people in the area.
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In free state, if indeed this has proved to be cholera, that would
send it up to 34
obviously, you know, the health authorities will have to confirm
this.
But he also said that this is not a national crisis. It's a crisis
in gauteng and around hamanskra, but it's not a national crisis.
The thing is, cholera can spread very quickly in a community.
You're a doctor,
you know how cholera behaves. You are getting reports, not only from
Freda fort, but also from what's going on on the ground, because
you've been active in home as well. Do you think it qualifies as
a national disaster? Should we be ramping up our levels of
vigilance.
No, I mean, I'm not worried about it being a natural disaster, but
I'm worried about the quality of water, because right now, as I'm
speaking to you, besides cholera, there's a E coli problem in
Makanda. We've had the settlers hospital. And of course, it's not
so risky as not high, just not so severe as as cholera. But they
are. There are six clinics getting patients from around makanga. What
equalai The such as hospital itself, we are not increasing the
water tanker intake to the areas. People don't want to take water
from municipal trucks. They don't want water from municipal Georgia
tanks. They're saying the water is infected. They're getting sick. So
there is a water problem, you know, in on the one side, this is
an infective problem, and on the other side, there's a shortage of
water. On the non availability of water because of drought. So there
is a crisis, not naturally, there is crisis in parts of the country.
Where does it there's water in a shortage or infection. And as the
days go by, we'll see. I mean, Lanka is saying this one patient.
Where did that water come from? Was the patient? Did the patient
for Malanga? Or did it get sick in a man's car? Yeah, we need to know
where the source is, right now, nobody seems to notice. Dr
Suleman, you're concerned about underreporting in the Free State.
Is it just the Free State, or are you concerned about underreporting
in gauteng and perhaps in other areas as well.
You know it we again, we've been in touch with the people on the
ground. Nobody's from what we've been told. Of course, we haven't
met every single family. Even asked every single person that
we've met, did anybody from your family die? It? If there was a
higher, much higher figure, it probably would have been mentioned
by the communities receiving water. That's the general trend
when you go around in distribution and meeting people, and like in
the covid time, everybody said so many people died in the street, in
the community, in the hall, in the ambulance yet, and everywhere. It
was just spoken loudly by the community that so many people
died. And then we realized there were many more people that the
deaths were not telling what was coming from the hospital, because
many people died at home. We haven't had that experience, you
know, in Hamas and and in three places. So we only there for the
first day. So it's difficult to say, but the people we met,
there's definitely more than six to nine people that have passed
on. Alright, Doctor India Suleiman, founder and director of
gift of the givers, I thank you, as always, for speaking to us,
reporting there almost certainly three members of the same family
they believe died just this week of cholera, and the doctor there
saying it could be as many as nine deaths in that area in
frederifford from cholera.