GOVERNMENT says it will make adjustments to the 2024 budget, through supplementary, to accommodate immediate measures aimed at containing the cholera outbreak in risk areas. Last week, President Hakainde Hichilema directed that shallow wells in the country must be buried as a measure to combat the cholera outbreak. In an interview, Monday, Finance and National Planning Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane said in response to the Presidential directive, government would develop a plan on where to put up boreholes in communities immediately after the rains. He said the Cholera outbreak would strain the budget, but that was not entirely unusual. “In response to the instruction by the President that there should be no shallow wells in Zambia anymore, perhaps in the...