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By the staff reporter
The city of Bulawayo, which has remained a relatively free place for epidemics of cholera and other waterborne diseases, has recorded four suspected cases of this deadly disease and authorities have traced the diseases to Harare.
Reports said Saturday that three of the patients had been quarantined at Thorngrove Hospital.
Harare suffered a devastating cholera epidemic that left 27 dead and nearly 4,000 also infected.
The epicenter of the epidemic is the suburbs of Glen View and Budiriro in Harare.
High-density residential areas have struggled with sanitation problems with drinking water sources that would have been contaminated by recurrent leaking sewers.
Investigations into the origins of cases experienced so far in the country's second-largest city have linked the evils to Harare.
Bulawayo City Public Relations Officer Nesisa Mpofu told the media that a 38-year-old resident of Emganwini had traveled to Harare and stayed at Glenview for two weeks.
The second is a woman who stayed in Gweru and had symptoms of typhoid. Gweru is struggling with an epidemic of typhoid that has killed nearly a dozen people.
The third patient is a 26-year-old man from Budiriro in Harare. He remains at Entumbane, in Bulawayo.
The government has since declared the outbreak in Harare a state of emergency, paving the way for the mobilization of resources to combat this scourge.
"We declare an emergency for Harare, which will allow us to contain cholera, typhoid and all that happens, we do not want more dead," said the Minister of Health and Child Protection , Obadiah Moyo. patients in Harare.
However, there are fears that the country's small resources will be further affected by the spread of the disease in some parts of the country.
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