Health ministry on cholera high alert

Botswana’s response is motivated by the neighbouring country’s seemingly struggle to contain a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 70 people across Zambia since October 2017. Around the same time, cases of cholera started being reported in Malawi and Tanzania, striking fear in the southern Africa region.

According to the ministry’s public health surveillance and emergency management and public health specialist, Dr Nesredin Jami Oumer, they are monitoring all public health threat hazards and risks globally, regionally and locally.