Africa-Press – Angola. The epidemic facing the country has placed it in third place on the global scale of deaths from the disease, the national director of Public Health, Helga Freitas, reported today. The data was released during a training workshop on measures to prevent, combat and treat cholera, aimed at the country’s business class.
According to Helga Freitas, this epidemiological situation is very worrying, despite collective efforts to mitigate and contain the spread of the disease.
Of the 21 provinces, 17 have cases of cholera, such as Cuanza-Sul, Zaire, Bengo, Benguela, Malanje and Cuanza-Norte.
The cholera outbreak began on January 2, 2024, in the Paraíso neighborhood, in the municipality of Cacuaco, in Luanda, and has spread throughout the country.
The national director of Public Health also explained that men are the ones who die most due to the epidemic, as well as children between the ages of two and five.
In total, more than 700,000 doses of vaccines were purchased to carry out a campaign in the most critical areas in the aforementioned 17 regions, she concluded.
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