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#BREAKING: City Of Harare Fires Officials For Inflating Cholera Kits Prices

Michael Gwarisa

HARARE City Council has fired officials belived to be inflating prices of goods and services to be used in the fight agaist cholera, Healthtimes can reveal. By Michael Gwarisa The city fathers said the Harare Acting Town Clerk Eng Hosiah Chisango this morning suspended some officials suspected of inflating prices for goods and services to

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Vultures Circle Around Econet’s US$10 mln Cholera Donation

Michael Gwarisa

CORRUPT municipal officials and individuals are reportedly gyrating around the US$10 million donation which was made last week by Econet wireless towards the procurement of Cholera kits and other essentials to fight the epidemic. HealthTimes Reporter These revelations came to light this morning when Econet founder, Strive Masiyiwa used his Facebook account to take a

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Confusion Rocks Cholera Crowd Fund…Health Ministry Calls It A Fraudulent Scheme

Michael Gwarisa

THERE seem to be discord around the Cholera crowdfund initiative amidst indications that the ministry of health and child care (MoHCC) has professed ignorance over the existence of such an initiative, describing it as a fraudulent scheme. By Michael Gwarisa The ministry of health says they were not aware of any crowdfund and they were

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Not The Time For Blame Game- CWGH

Michael Gwarisa

THE Cholera outbreak obtaining in Zimbabwe is not a platform to politically outfox each other or exhibit political muscle and prowess as lives are at stake, Community Working Group on Health executive director, Itai Rusike has warned. By Michael Gwarisa Commenting on the prevailing Cholera outbreak, Rusike said in as much as  the rising number

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Cholera Deaths Under Control

Michael Gwarisa

HEALTH and Child Care minister, Dr Obadiah Moyo says despite the country recording several thousands of Cholera cases, government through support from the corporates world, NGOs and individuals has managed to avoid sporadic deaths as a result of Cholera. Staff Reporter To date not more than 30 Cholera deaths have been recorded against a cholera

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Graffiti Artists Use Calligraphy To Communicate Cholera Awareness

Michael Gwarisa

A local Calligraphy organisation, Caligraph.co has embarked on an extensive Cholera awareness campaign in affected areas using Graffiti and murals so as to simplify the Cholera message. HealthTimes Reporter Speaking to HealthTimes, Kumbirai Zvinavashe said Cholera was a national problem and everyone needed to come through in any way possible to ensure the issue is

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