National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE Trust) has underscored the need to intensify mindset change interventions among stakeholders in the fight against raging cholera outbreak besides clinical treatment.

Ministry of Health is non committal on whether it is considering instituting a ban on the use of diapers as a measure of containing the raging Cholera epidemic among other illnesses.

As government and its development partners continues to engage more efforts in fighting the Cholera outbreak in the Country, Yamba Malawi, has joined the team with trainings of more health workers to enhance preventive, mitigation and resilient measures in communities.

Old Mutual Foundation has called upon hospitals under the Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) to be prudent with the medical supplies donated by the corporate world towards the cholera fight.

As the cholera outbreak still rages on in the country, experts have differed on the need for the country to devise a male oriented cholera prevention awareness campaign.

A primary school headteacher at Mwitere in Thyolo has died of cholera, Wednesday, health authorities have confirmed.

Malawi has a long way to go to contain the current cholera outbreak.

As the cholera outbreak continues to hit most parts of the country, three ward councilors of the most affected areas of Makhetha, Limbe and Bangwe in Blantyre say apart from providing treatment to patients, the government and development partners need to consider supplying food aid to those receiving treatment in cholera units.

Neno district health authorities say they have registered a first maternal death due to cholera at Ligowe health centre, bringing the total number of cholera deaths to four.

Thyolo district has been added to the list of the cholera-affected districts after recording the first five cases and one death.