Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican High Commissioner in Malawi is urgently studying ways to arrange the return of the 2,500 Mozambican refugees in Nsanje, Malawi, in the face of a cholera outbreak putting at risk the Mozambicans living in accommodation camps there.
Three weeks after the outbreak, Nsanje district has already registered 45 cases of cholera and two deaths, which worries the Mozambican authorities in Malawi, since the precariousness of the sanitation in the accommodation centres for flood victims favours the spread of the disease.
The High Commissioner of Mozambique in Malawi, Elias Zimba, recognizes the seriousness of the situation in Nsanje and says that the best solution is the voluntary repatriation of the Mozambicans who have taken refuge there.
Nsanje district health spokesperson George Mbotwa said the biggest concern is that 45% of the reported cases are children, and that the situation was increasingly alarming, as camp residents were not following basic hygiene rules.
Health authorities in Nsanje also announced that the three new cases of cholera detected recently are all Mozambican citizens from Miegaza and Chire, in Morrumbala district, Zambézia province.
The first cholera case in Nsanje district was reported in early March, health officials there maintaining that it was originally from Mozambique.
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