Via Radio Okapi: North Kivu: at least 830,000 people expected to be vaccinated against cholera. Excerpt from the Google translation:
Approximately eight hundred and thirty thousand people will be vaccinated in seven health zones in North Kivu against cholera. The campaign was launched Wednesday (October 30th) by the Congolese Minister of Public Health, Eteni Longondo, and will last five days. It concerns all people aged at least one year.
A total of thirty-four health areas, considered high-risk, are targeted in the seven health zones selected for this second cholera vaccination campaign in the provinces.
While cholera is endemic in the four eastern provinces of the DRC (North and South Kivu, Tanganyika and Upper Lomami), the province of North Kivu alone has recorded almost one-quarter of all the cases enumerated since the beginning of the year in the country.
This situation justifies the need and urgency of this reactive vaccination, says Goma WHO official in Goma Kwam. "The province of North Kivu has registered almost a quarter of the total number of cases registered in the country, or 4836 with 46 deaths," he says.
