Cholera: Zimbabwe Asks for Body Bags

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Zimbabwe has asked for supplies of body bags to deal with the people who "are dying in numbers", according to the World Health Organisation representative in South Africa, Stella Anyangwe.

And according to Barbara Hogan, the health minister here, the statement from Zimbabwe that there is no crisis there cannot have come from the government, since there is no government there. "It only comes from one section," she said.

Anyangwe and Hogan were speaking in Pretoria today at a media briefing on the cholera epidemic.

The body bags which Zimbabwe has asked for were among a list of medical and other supplies needed to fight the epidemic there. The long list of supplies includes tents for temporary hospital wards, cholera beds with a hole in the centre of the mattress, torches and batteries and gas lamps, because of the absence of electricity, latex gloves to help protect the medical staff, and buckets with lids to try to keep water supplies clean.

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