The Chinese Government on Wednesday donated 314,000 dollars (two million yuan) to Zambia to tackle cholera outbreak that has ravaged especially Lusaka, capital of the southern African country.
Chinese Ambassador to Zambia, Yang Youming, said this at the country’s ministry of health in Lusaka.
Youming said that the Chinese government had also sent a team of experts to work with authorities in Zambia on how to control the cholera.
Also, the Chinese embassy had donated a further 50,000 Zambian Kwacha (about 5,000 dollars) towards the fight against cholera and Chinese enterprises further added more than one million Kwacha (about 100,000 dollars), Yang added.
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He further said that the Chinese enterprises had promised to drill new boreholes as a way of helping communities have access to clean water.
The ambassador also signed an agreement with the Zambian authorities towards cooperation in fighting cholera.
On his part, Zambia’s Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya thanked the Chinese government for the donation, saying China has always been an all-weather friend.
The minister said China had done a lot in helping Zambia in the health sector as evidenced through the sending of 20 medical teams to date as well as helping in the improvement of health infrastructure.
Cholera broke out in October 2017 in Lusaka, with 3,444 cases recorded so far and more than 70 deaths.
But the Zambian minister expressed optimism that the battle will soon be won as the country has recorded drastic reduction in new cholera cases.
