Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:05:45 +0000
BY SANDRA MACHIMA
A consignment of assorted medical logistics and materials worth US$ 66,000 donated by the Turkish Co-operation and Co-ordination Agency (TIKA) as a contribution towards containing the cholera outbreak, has been airlifted to Lusaka.
Charge’d’ Affaires at the Zambian Embassy in Ankara, Bwalya Nondo said the consignment will go a long way in supplementing Government efforts aimed at containing cholera.
Mr Nondo who witnessed the dispatch of the consignment, thanked the Agency for the humanitarian assistance.
And in addition to the consigned medical logistics, TIKA would procure five tonnes of chlorine from local suppliers in Lusaka to enable vulnerable communities to treat their drinking water to help avert the waterborne disease.
Mr Nondo assured TIKA Vice President for Africa, Ali Maskan that President Edgar Lungu’s administration was determined to put in place long-lasting measures such as increasing access to piped water in high density to avert outbreaks of waterborne diseases.
“His Excellency the President Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, is also very focused in upgrading some high density residential areas and to equip them with amenities that support good sanitation and enhance waste management to bring under control predisposing factors to cholera,” Mr Nondo said.
First press secretary at the Embassy of Zambia in Turkey, Jerry Munthali disclosed that the consignment, was as a result of lobbying by Charge’ d’ Affaires at the Zambian Embassy in Ankara, Mr Nondo, for assistance to supplement government efforts in fighting cholera.
Mr Munthali said the consignment was expected in Lusaka aboard an Emirates Airlines commercial flight on Saturday, January 27, 2018.
