Imtiaz Sooliman – End the cholera outbreak Three family members die of cholera in Verdefort

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.