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Vendors slapped with 48 hour ultimatum
11 Jan 2017 at 03:15hrs | Views
Vendors in Harare have been given 48 hours to stop selling food in the central business district as the city is battling to contain typhoid outbreak.
Two people have since died in Mbare and 132 suspected cases of typhoid had been recorded.
Harare acting corporate communications manager Michael Chideme said drastic measures are needed to contain the spread of the disease.
"One of these is street vending. We are therefore issuing a 48-hour ultimatum to all illegal food vendors operating within the Harare Metropolitan area to cease operations temporarily forthwith. The ban will be reviewed depending on improvements on the ground," he is quoted saying.
He added "Preliminary investigations have shown that the key drivers of typhoid and other water-borne diseases are issues related to personal hygiene, unregulated vending of foodstuffs such as vegetables, meat, fish (cooked and uncooked) and inadequate water supplies,".
The symptoms of typhoid are; poor appetite, abdominal pain, headaches, generalised aches and pains, fever, high temperature, lethargy (usually only if untreated), intestinal bleeding or perforation (after two to three weeks of the disease), diarrhoea or constipation.
Two people have since died in Mbare and 132 suspected cases of typhoid had been recorded.
Harare acting corporate communications manager Michael Chideme said drastic measures are needed to contain the spread of the disease.
"One of these is street vending. We are therefore issuing a 48-hour ultimatum to all illegal food vendors operating within the Harare Metropolitan area to cease operations temporarily forthwith. The ban will be reviewed depending on improvements on the ground," he is quoted saying.
He added "Preliminary investigations have shown that the key drivers of typhoid and other water-borne diseases are issues related to personal hygiene, unregulated vending of foodstuffs such as vegetables, meat, fish (cooked and uncooked) and inadequate water supplies,".
The symptoms of typhoid are; poor appetite, abdominal pain, headaches, generalised aches and pains, fever, high temperature, lethargy (usually only if untreated), intestinal bleeding or perforation (after two to three weeks of the disease), diarrhoea or constipation.
Source - Byo24News
