🚨💧🤮 This comes after seven people lost their lives due to the recent outbreak of diarrhoeal disease in the area. Read more on TheCitizenNews ⤵️
from Kanana, Suurman, Majaneng and Green Field in Hammanskraal were treated at Jubilee District Hospital with symptoms of diarrhea, stomach cramps and vomiting, according to the Gauteng Health Department.Diarrhoeal disease is a common and often highly infectious condition that affects the stomach and intestines. And it mainly spreads by contact with an infected person or through contaminated food and drinking water sources.
People have also been advised against conducting religious activities, such as baptisms, in rivers or streams.The health department has mobilised provincial and district outbreak response teams, who have been deployed to Jubilee Hospital and other affected areas. “Already, stool specimen has been collected from some of the affected people. The results are expected from the laboratory during the course of the weekend,” the department said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the City of Tshwane said water samples have been collected in the affected areas and taken for tests. The results are expected on Wednesday to determine the cause of the outbreak.“Officials from the city’s Health Department will descend on the affected areas again today to collect further samples from the water tankers that supply water to the informal settlements.
“The city would like to encourage residents in the affected areas to regularly wash the containers they use to draw water from the water tankers with Jik detergent, and to boil water drawn from other sources before drinking it.”
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