290411SOLOMON WATCH
By Aloysius Laukai

Reports of the Cholera outbreak in the Haku area of Buka island is taking its toll now into the Solomon islands.
The Outbreak was contained by immediate response from Health Authorities on Buka island however there are still individual cases being addressed still on Buka island.

There has been no case reported from Bougainville mainland since the outbreak was reported several weeks ago.

Meanwhile in the Solomon Islands,

Solomon Islands has taken the controversial step of telling citizens not to travel to neighbouring Bouganville in PNG because of growing concerns a cholera outbreak may spread across the border.

The World Health Organisation has advised against banning all travel between the regions... fearing the move could encourage people to cross the border undetected.

The Solomon Islands Health Ministry has stepped up surveillance of the border and embarked on an aggressive cholera awareness campaign in the North Western Provinces.

Comments

[WanSoloWara]

The step taken by Solomons Islands to tell its citizens not to travel to Bougainville should not be termed as "controversial". It is good and necessarily. It would hit them hard if Cholera was to reach them as they don't have much resources to treat it so for them prevention is mandatory. ABG should also encourage its citizens not to travel to SI unless they have been cleared of this disease. We all shared the same sea and should take steps to take care of each other all the time.