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Ministry of Health has said contact tracing has been challenge in containing the spread of Coronavirus in the country.
Thomas: Contact tracing was a problem pic by Tione Andsen (Mana)
Acting deputy director of Preventive Health Services for Heath Education Service, Mavuto Thomas told the media on Tuesday at Hillside Lodge in Mponela, Dowa during Covid-19 Media Interface meeting for central region.
He said some of the returning residents were providing wrong phone numbers which could not be connected and thereby compounding the spread of the virus.
“Some of the returnees were not honesty in providing real details and contact phone numbers. Some were even leaving their south African number as their contact numbers while in the country,” Thomas added.
December 30, 2020 Tione Andsen -Mana 1 Comment
Government set to install oxygen plant at Mzuzu Central Hospital in order to handle serious Covid-19 patient cases.
Mapemba: Mzuzu Hospital set to have oxygen plant pic by Tione Andsen (Mana)
Currently, the hospital spends K62 000 on each oxygen cylinder. The hospital uses about 15 oxygen cylinders in its intensive care unit and other wards every day.
Epidemiology officer for Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM), Daniel Mapemba said on Tuesday at Hillside Lodge in Mponela, Dowa during Covid-19 Media Interface meeting for central region that the installation of the oxygen plant at Mzuzu hospital would help to reduce referral cases from northern region to the two central hospitals.
South Sudan prone to cholera outbreak from Ethiopia
The Ministry of Health in Juba has said South Sudan is susceptible to a renewed cholera outbreak as the disease has resurged in neighbouring Ethiopia.
The Director-General for Preventive Health Services at the National Ministry of Health, Dr. John Rumunu, speaking during a press conference in Juba on Sunday, said areas such Akobo County in Jonglei, Pochalla in Pibor, and Kapoeta East County in Eastern Equatoria which border Ethiopia are at high risk.
According to Dr. Rumunu, the cholera outbreak in Ethiopia poses threats to the well-being of citizens of South Sudan and placed the three counties on high alert.
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