By VOM News Team
Village Health Teams (VHTs) working in Murora Sub County, Kisoro district have expressed concern following a spike in Malaria cases as a result of stagnant flood water caused by deadly Mudslides.
At least eight people died in Kisoro district following heavy rains that rocked the district.
The Villages of Gashoro, Gichuzi, Karambi, Kabyaza, Bukerahe,Gihuyanga, Maregamo, Rukopfe, Nyamatembe, Nyabiyonga, Rugeshi and Bizi are likely to experience a Malaria epidemic, if authorities do not respond in a timely manner.
A report filed by some of the VHTs revealed that Malaria cases have significantly increased from 3 cases per week to 15.
Geoffrey Muntu, Malaria Focal point person and Coordinator for VHTs said the district working on a preparedness and Response strategy to avert a malaria epidemic.
Muntu said it is important that communities work together to prevent any disease outbreak associated with poor hygiene.
The VHT report also suggests that several villages in Murora are engulfed with a foul smell.
This is because the flood water is stagnant and contains fecal matter as well as dead carcasses of wild dogs and other vermin that died during the mudslides.
Birungi Dismas, Principal Health Inspector for Bunagana Town Council advised that communities to sleep under treated Insecticide Mosquito nets to avoid getting Malaria.
Birungi said VHTs are going to be equipped with medicine to put into the stagnant water to kill the repugnant smell.
He insisted that all households should first boil all drinking water to avoid getting diseases such as Cholera, Typhoid, Worms, Polio and Dysentery.
More than 1,078 people in Chahafi town council requested Government to be relocate them from the Mudslide prone areas of Murora.
A total of 189 families handed over their petition to the Kisoro Resident District Commissioner Hajji Shafaki Sekandi.
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