By JAJAH COULIBALY –
THE campaign to fight cholera in Lusaka is gaining momentum following the launch last week of the Lusaka Cholera Response, a joint venture between Times Printpak and Makeni Islamic Welfare Limited.
Since then, the campaign has attracted various help to tackle the waterborne disease, with the latest to join the fight being Big Pic Products and Services, who yesterday donated 200 bottles of chlorine and hundreds of colour posters with cholera prevention messages.
The posters will be stuck on strategic and most frequented places.
Makeni Islamic Welfare Board member Haroon Ghumra told the Times that the Welfare was impressed at the quick response by Big Pic towards the fight against cholera in Zambia’s capital city.
“Those posters will be placed in places where there is a lot of human traffic because they carry very important messages,” Mr Ghumra said.
Mr Ghumra said that sensitising members of the public was key and that the stakeholders will continue disseminating information through the media and other effective channels.
He called on corporate entities, commercial banks and the media fraternity to come on board and help in any way they could and ensure cholera was tackled in Lusaka.
More than 650 cases of cholera have been recorded in Lusaka alone since the disease broke out in October this year with 15 deaths.
