Govt grilled over elephantiasis outbreak response

PARLIAMENTARIANS this week grilled Health and Child Care deputy minister Sleiman Timios Kwidini over the government’s slow efforts to assist communities defying a vaccination programme following an elephantiasis outbreak in some parts of the country.

A mass drug administration has since kicked off in Kariba and Mhondoro Ngezi, Mashonaland West province and is expected to end on September 26.

Speaking during the question and answer session, a number of legislators demanded government urgency on curbing elephantiasis.

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