[Dialogue] Docs say Zimbabwe covering up cholera

[Kay Fulkerson]

Docs say  <http://www.arcamax.com/healthtips/s-448823-199831> Zimbabwe
covering up cholera 


HARARE, Zimbabwe (UPI) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is trying to
cover up the extent of a cholera epidemic in the country, doctors say. 

Medics protesting outside the Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare were beaten by
riot police last week as they called for Mugabe to provide drugs and
intravenous drips for cholera victims, The Sunday Times of London reported. 

The doctors said the government is paralyzed by the cholera crisis and is
only interested in covering it up so as not to show any weakness while
negotiating a power-sharing agreement with the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change. 

Zimbabwe says 44 people have died, but the World Health Organization said
Friday the true number was 294 dead, while the aid agency Doctors Without
Borders said 1.4 million more were at risk and thousands may die because of
crumbling sewer systems, The Times said. 

"We know that many hundreds of people are dying, but the government is only
concerned with concealing the extent of the problem," Barnabas Mangodza,
executive director of the Harare Residents Association, told the newspaper.
"They say they are not permitted to declare a national disaster." 




Copyright 2008 by United Press International

I saw this in a health news letter.
I am reminded how little we know of the world situation, and the separation
of the rich and the poor is growing.

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