Thousands of people trapped for more than a week in submerged villages without access to clean water
Flooded homes are seen after Cyclone Idai in Buzi district outside Beira, Mozambique, March 21, 2019. Picture: REUTERS / SIPHIWE SIBEKO
In Munhava, central Beira, doctors and nurses at a newly set up treatment centre said they are treating around 140 patients a day for diarrhoea. Many of the patients arrive too weak to walk. Ussene Isse, national director of medical assistance at the health ministry, said he expected cholera to spread beyond the five cases confirmed as of Wednesday morning.
Such diseases are another threat in the wake of the cyclone, which tore through Mozambique and into neighbouring Zimbabwe and Malawi, killing more than 700 people and displacing hundreds of thousands of others. “The biggest challenge is organisation,” said a coordinator at the clinic who did not want to be named. “The health system was completely broken after the storm and we have to re-establish capacity fast.”
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