{"id":55492,"date":"2024-01-07T20:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T20:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mmembe-and-former-health-minister-renders-advice-to-the-state-on-cholera-outbreak"},"modified":"2024-01-07T20:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T20:48:32","slug":"mmembe-and-former-health-minister-renders-advice-to-the-state-on-cholera-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/mmembe-and-former-health-minister-renders-advice-to-the-state-on-cholera-outbreak","title":{"rendered":"M\u2019membe and former Health Minister renders Advice to the State on Cholera outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Dr. Fred M\u2019membe, President of the Opposition Socialist Party in Zambia, has issued an appeal to President Hakainde Hichilema, urging the declaration of a public health emergency in response to the escalating cholera outbreak in Lusaka and other regions. Dr. M\u2019membe\u2019s statement, marked by urgency and concern, comes at a juncture as the nation grapples with the ramifications of the cholera epidemic on its healthcare system.<\/p>\n

Dr. M\u2019membe highlighted the severe strain the cholera outbreak has placed on the country\u2019s healthcare infrastructure. In his words, \u201cThe health staff is overstretched. The infrastructure is inadequate, and medical supplies are not enough.\u201d This pointed critique by Dr. M\u2019membe leaves little room for misinterpretation: the situation is dire and necessitates immediate action.<\/p>\n

The core of Dr. M\u2019membe\u2019s argument revolves around invoking sections 36 and 37 of the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) Act. This action, he asserts, would empower President Hichilema to mobilize military resources for a civil emergency of this nature. \u201cIt has been done before during the 2017\/18 cholera outbreak,\u201d Dr. M\u2019membe reminded, highlighting the precedent for such measures. He also emphasized that this provision would unlock additional resources from the treasury, crucial for tackling the emergency effectively.<\/p>\n

Dr. M\u2019membe stressed the importance of the government\u2019s decision-making in prompting international and local partners to assist. \u201cThis is the provision that moves the international community and cooperating partners to assist in mobilizing resources to support the cause,\u201d he stated, indicating the pivotal role of government action in securing external support.<\/p>\n

In addition to Dr. M\u2019membe\u2019s statements, the former Health Minister of Zambia also contributed a detailed plan to combat the cholera outbreak. He suggested that the nation is confronted with a ferocious public health enemy and the death toll is unacceptably high. \u201cLet\u2019s step up cholera interventions!\u201d he urged, commiserating with families who lost loved ones and saluting the fallen nurse warrior who succumbed at the frontline.<\/p>\n

The former Minister emphasized enhancing evidence-informed leadership and coordination of a multi-sectoral response, triggering and strengthening epidemic preparedness and response committees at national and subnational levels, and activating emergency response systems through the Zambia National Public Health Institute. He also recommended thoroughly defining the epidemic, mapping epicenters and potential hotspots, and identifying factors fueling it.<\/p>\n

An essential part of the plan involved stepping up health promotion activities to sensitize the public on personal and collective measures to avoid contracting cholera. \u201cAll media and communication platforms need to be engaged,\u201d he insisted. He also called for escalating upstream interventions to address the disease\u2019s determinants and upscaling community-level interventions to halt new infections.<\/p>\n

The former Minister\u2019s recommendations also included engaging partners to procure cholera vaccines for mass vaccination in all hotspots, discouraging overcrowding and public gatherings for cholera victims\u2019 funerals, and improving case management to deal with the caseload and stop the deaths. He also underlined the need for enhancing laboratory investigations, training and deploying adequate human capital for community-based public health interventions, and issuing statutory instruments to identify adequate infrastructure to treat patients.<\/p>\n

He concluded, \u201cUnity of purpose is cardinal,\u201d emphasizing the need for enhanced leadership for a coordinated multi-sectoral response to stop this ferocious assault on Zambia\u2019s public health security.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. Dr. Fred M\u2019membe, President of the Opposition Socialist Party in Zambia, has issued an appeal to President Hakainde Hichilema, urging the declaration of a public health emergency in response to the escalating cholera outbreak in Lusaka and other regions. 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