Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda says a team of experts from Israel has arrived in the country to help fight cholera.

And Local Government Minister Vincent Mwale says 41,587 tonnes of garbage has been cleared so far in Lusaka since the cleaning exercise began.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya has announced that National Heroes stadium has been converted into a temporal cholera treatment centre for adults.

At a media briefing today, Chanda said the team was on a three-day fact finding mission to support Zambia in water purification.

“A team of five experts from Israel, from the Sheba Medical Centre have arrived in the country to support the presidential initiative to deal with the cholera problem and also to deal with the medium to long term intervention in high density areas. This team comprises water engineers, eptimologists, five of them, they arrived last evening, I gave them a brief and surrendered them to the Ministry of Health. They have since gone on the ground to conduct rapid tests and gather information about the epidemic,” said Chanda.

“This evening, I will be taking them to the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Water so that he links them up with the technical staff in the ministry. Their main intervention is the deployment of high technology to deal with water purification and treatment with the overall objective to deal with cholera in a comprehensive manner…it is meant to, if possible, completely eliminate the bacteria that causes cholera.”