FORMER Minister of Health in the MMD government Angela Cifire says it is shocking that open defecation is no longer a problem found in villages, but it is now happening here in Lusaka. In an interview, Cifire said the government needed to devise a multi-sectoral approach in the fight against Cholera. “We’ve been singing a song about the people in the villages, the chiefs have done a lot of work where they’ve been teaching our people in the villages that ‘no open defecation’. But open defecation is here, in town, that is where it is. Most of them, it’s shocking that there are no toilets in the compounds and it was shocking for me to learn that actually, people use...

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