Health time bomb ticks in Centenary
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO
A HEALTH time bomb is ticking away in Centenary’s Hillside area in Mashonaland Central province, where residents have gone for 10 years without clean, potable water, forcing them to draw water from open wells or queue at the town’s only borehole.
They said the only borehole in the area had become a potential spreader of the COVID-19 virus as people queued for hours on end in search of water without observing social distancing protocols.
“We are afraid of succumbing to diarrhoea due to the water crisis. It exposes us to water-borne diseases like cholera. There is no hope that the water situation will be attended to anytime soon,” a resident, who refused to be named, told
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