The ongoing cholera outbreak is a sobering reminder of the devastating consequences of systemic failures in public health and sanitation.
Multiple lives - already in the double digits - have been lost, and nearly 800 suspected cases have been recorded as of December 7, with daily infections exceeding 60.
These figures, grim as they are, represent a failure to act on preventable circumstances.
In many ways, it demonstrates that we have not learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity of hygiene.