Hukumomin kasar Zambiya sun sanar da cewa sun kara kaimi wajen yaki da cutar kwalara, cutar da ta fara bulla tun a watan Oktoba, kuma tuni ta lakume rayukan mutane kusan dari a kasar da ke kudancin Afirka a bana.
Ministar lafiya, Sylvia Masebo, ta yi kira da a dauki tsauraran matakan tsafta a gidaje, kuma takwararta mai kula da harkokin ruwa, Mike Mposha, ta ce za a fi rarraba sinadarin chlorine domin tsabtace gurbataccen ruwa a yankunan da cutar kwalara ta fi shafa.
Sylvia Masebo ta ce an samu mutuwar mutane biyar da kuma sabbin mutane 111 da suka kamu da cutar a cikin sa’o’i 24, musamman sakamakon ruwan sama mai yawa, wanda ke hanzarta yada cutar ta hanyar ruwa da abinci, in ji Sylvia Masebo. Wannan shine mafi girman jimillar yau da kullun a cikin 2023.
An samu mutuwar mutane 93 a bana daga wannan muguwar cutar gudawa, akasari tun watan Oktoba, a cewar Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiyar Jama’a ta kasa.
“Al’ummarmu na fuskantar babban kalubalen lafiya,” in ji Ms Masebo a wani taron manema labarai.
Adadin mace-macen da ake fama da shi a halin yanzu, kusan kashi 3%, yana da “damuwa sosai”, in ji ta, tare da la’akari da cewa a duniya baki daya, bai wuce 1% ba.
Kasar Zimbabwe, makwabciyarta Zambia kuma ta kamu da cutar kwalara, ta ayyana dokar ta baci.
A cewar Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya (WHO), sama da mutane 250 ne aka yi rikodin mutuwar tun watan Fabrairu.
Hukumar ta WHO ta bayyana damuwarta kan yadda cutar kwalara ke karuwa a duniya a shekarun baya-bayan nan, inda nahiyar Afirka ta fi fama da cutar.
Adadin wadanda suka kamu da cutar kwalara ya ninka fiye da ninki biyu, daga 223,370 a shekarar 2021 zuwa 472,697 a shekarar 2022.
A cikin 2023, an riga an sami cutar sama da 580,000 a cikin Satumba, a cewar hukumar lafiya ta Majalisar Dinkin Duniya.
Ita ma kasar Zambia tana fuskantar annobar cutar anthrax mafi muni tun daga shekarar 2011, kasashen Kenya, Malawi, Uganda da Zimbabwe su ma sun sami bullar cutar anthrax a bana, inda aka kashe mutane 20 da kuma wasu 1,100 da ake zargin sun kamu da cutar a wadannan kasashe biyar a tsakiyar watan Disamba.
Africanews/Ladan Nasidi.
