Namibia remains on high alert amidst cholera crisis

Niël Terblanché As the cholera crisis intensifies across the African continent, claiming over 4,419 lives and affecting more than 266,000 individuals in the past year, Namibia remains on high alert. The Ministry of Health and Social Service recently confirmed that it is bolstering its disease surveillance and precautionary measures, responding proactively to the outbreak ravaging the populations of neighbouring nations. The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a significant burden of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), accounting for over 16 percent of the continent’s cholera cases. Concurrently, the DRC has been the…