Die dodetal van ‘n vermoedelike maaggriep wat sedert 15 Mei 2023 die inwoners van Hammanskraal, Noord van Pretoria beet het, het bygedra tot ten minste 10 persone wat reeds gesterf het.
Rina Marx, VF Plus-raadslid vir gesondheid, het 20 Mei 2023 ‘n verklaring uitgereik ten opsigte van ‘n toename ten opsigte van Gastro-enteritis wat in die area uitgebreek het.
Op die 19de Mei was daar reeds meer as 50 pasiënte met ‘n maagvirus wat by Jubilee Hospitaal gerapporteer.
Sedert 18 Mei 2023 is sterftes aangemeld.
Monsters is van geaffekteerde pasiënte en water geneem om meer inligting te bekom. Uitslae sal gekommunikeer word.
Die klem is op higiëne geplaas wat uitgeoefen moet word om die uitbraak onder beheer te help bring.
Daar is intussen verskeie “cholera” inligting op die Facebook-blad van die Stad Tshwane geplaas.
Ongeveer 19 ure terug het die Stad Tshwane die volgende verklaring gemaak:
COMMUNITIES IN HAMMANSKRAAL AND SURROUNDING AREAS URGED NOT TO DRINK WATER FROM TAPS FOLLOWING A HEALTH OUTBREAK
The City of Tshwane would like to urge communities in Hammanskraal and surrounding areas not to use water from taps for drinking purposes following a health outbreak in the area.
While the water supplied by the city in Hammanskraal is not potable, however, the city does provide potable (drinkable) water through 52 water tankers to informal settlements three times a week, and 40 water trucks to formal areas daily in Region 2. This is done to ensure that communities drink safe water.
The city regularly conducts tests on the quality of water provided to our communities, and following this outbreak, comprehensive tests will be done on the entire water distribution network.
Water samples have been collected in the affected areas and taken for tests and results are expected on Wednesday to determine the cause of the outbreak. Some of the cases reported are from the Moretele area, which is not supplied by the City of Tshwane.
Officials from the city’s Health Department will descend on the affected areas again today to collect further samples from the water tankers that supply water to the informal settlements.
The Outbreak Response Teams (ORT) are on the ground conducting surveillance monitoring and doing sampling of the water. Communities are urged to present themselves to the nearest health facility immediately when they experience symptoms. Health facilities are on high alert to urgently attend to the patients with symptoms.
The city is eagerly awaiting the confirmatory test results from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) to establish the cause of the outbreak.
The city would like to encourage residents in the affected areas to regularly wash the containers they use to draw water from the water tankers with Jik detergent, and to boil water drawn from other sources before drinking it. Communities are also urged not to conduct religious activities such as baptism in the rivers or streams.
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