world health organization The recent news about the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has many at the World Health Organization worried. The rainy season is about to start, and they are concerned that contamination from Zimbabwe will start to affect neighboring countries. Cholera is spread by food and rain water, and the steps the World Health Organization has taken include donating $117,000 to the hospitals in this country to feed the hospital workers and buy medications for the afflicted. That may not seem like much in American dollars, but in the local Zimbabwe currency, it is equivalent to $7,090,908,855.47 in that impoverished country. That is $7 billion dollars.

Zimbabwe is a country that is crumbling before our very eyes. Its president has done so little to help this country, and people are starving. The inflation that occurred in this country has left people starving and homeless. A long drought has not helped the food situation any at all. Not only is the World Health Organization stepping in, but UNICEF is as well with supplies that will also help the medical staffs with food, clean water, and medicines.