'PM directs district leaders to ensure students join secondary schools'..check this out

PRIME Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday directed district commissioners and district executive directors (DEDs) to make sure that all students who perform well in primary school are selected to secondary schools in the first selection. The premier issued the directive yesterday in Lindi Region when speaking to regional leaders and executives after receiving the regional education report.
According to him, the government will not tolerate thousands of students failing to continue with secondary education due to shortage of classrooms.
“The fifth phase government is dedicated to providing free education to every child so we will not stand by as some children fail to join secondary schools,” said the PM.
“We have declared that education is free, there should be no excuse why some children should be left at home,” he said.
“If we have managed to admit many students to join form one, it is obvious that we shall have many form four graduates. I want all leaders to ensure that there is an advanced level secondary school in every division,” Majaliwa said. 
“You can start by upgrading one secondary school in your division by improving infrastructure,” said the premier.
In another development, the prime minister said he will closely follow why farmers are charged for storing produce in government warehouses.
He cited the Liwale warehouse where several agencies have set up shop to charge farmers.

'I did not try to hide cholera, says DMO'
Speaking to ‘The Guardian’ yesterday, Dr Bakuza said the evidence on which he was arrested and detained by police for three hours were of previous cholera tests which were all clinically negative. 
He insisted that positive tests taken on December 19 this year, and confirmed on December 21, were not delayed.
“There have been sporadic cases of diarrhoea and vomiting since December 13, but all tested negative and clinically we could not report otherwise,” he said.
According to Bakuza, when he appeared before the regional security and safety committee where he was supposed to deliver his report, he was denied the chance to do so.
“I was wrongly punished. It is unethical to report a cholera outbreak without confirming the specimen through a laboratory test,” he asserted. 
He said lab tests have been conducted since December 14 and every finding reported to the Singida district executive director, who was supposed to brief higher authorities on the situation.
Also speaking to The Guardian, Singida regional commissioner Dr Rehema Nchimbi said she ordered Bakuza to be locked up on the basis of reports she received indicating that he attempted to hide information on the outbreak of cholera.
RC Nchimbi said the report she was given indicated that there were cases of cholera within Singida as of November 26 this year, but the DMO hadn’t shared that information with higher authorities.
“I ordered the police to arrest him and lock him up for just three hours, as a lesson to other physicians. I don’t want to entertain negligence…they are all required to report to the appropriate authority whenever they diagnose such contagious fatal diseases,” said Dr Nchimbi.
She insisted that such cases should be reported early so that precautionary measures can be taken to avoid a spread of the disease.
According to the RC, district physicians diagnosed a cholera patient on November 26 this year, but failed to share this information until December 18.She said due to this delay, at least 18 people were infected with the disease and two of them died. 
The other 16 patients are still hospitalised and have been put under quarantine at specific camps located at Meria, she added.
“The DMO was aware of the cholera outbreak, but he did not observe medical procedures which among other things require him to share such information for public safety,” Nchimbi said the RC.
But according to Dr Bakuza, although it is true that symptoms such as diarrhoea and vomiting can be linked to cholera, physicians are not professionally allowed to declare so unless clinical tests are carried out to prove it, since both symptoms also apply to other ailments.
Meanwhile, RC Nchimbi said as part of a new disease control strategy, the regional administration has started to distribute water treatment chemicals to local households.