Public health specialists in KwaZulu-Natal are urging people who display any cholera symptoms to seek medical help immediately.
Earlier on Tuesday, the National Health Department urged doctors nationwide to begin cholera treatment immediately, if it is suspected that a patient maybe infected and not to wait for test results. So far, KwaZulu-Natal has not reported any cholera cases.
Head of Public Health Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Professor Saloshni Naidoo has cautioned residents to ensure that their water source is safe. “Very important it is surveillance and in South Africa Cholera is a notifiable condition. So, when the diagnosis is made, they need to be reported to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and then the local authorities and local health departments must be informed that they need to go and investigate and survey the community to make sure that there are no other cases of cholera in the community.
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