 The southwest region of Cameroon is one of the country's most popular and oldest cities. So it's over 90,000 residents. This is the city of Friendship. Created in 1858, its black sandy beaches are a rare attraction to tourists. As it is characteristic of most coastal cities, Limber has her own fair share of natural and man-made hazards. The most critical is the shortage of portable water. Constant flooding and sporadic ocean overflows regularly pollute the few streams and rivers that are the principal source of water for many city dwellers. The health consequences are evident. Water-borne diseases like cholera are all too frequent. We started receiving cholera cases here in the hospital from the 7th of January 2022. Majority of the cases at that time were coming from the West Coast area, the Buncha Itina. Gradually, we started having sporadic cases in Limber until between the 17th to the 22nd of March when we had the search of cholera cases in Limber, with the numbers moving from 15, 30, 50 to 100 within a couple of days. Total number of cases, we have 1,287 patients. So we had the total of about 15 deaths in the course of this epidemic as of now. I think there were days that we could receive over 100, 120 patients per day who were coming since it was the cholera treatment center. Among these patients, more than 60, 70 percent of them were severe cases. Market no-gets toilet. Experts have attributed the water shortage in Limber and its environs to uncontrollable cases. We have a lot of people who are suffering from cholera, and we have a lot of people who are suffering from cholera, and we have a lot of people who are suffering from cholera. Experts have attributed the water shortage in Limber and its environs to uncontrolled human activities and resultant environmental degradation. Every 10 days, we do an alert, and in the alerts, we identify the potential climate risks that we may have around the country or in the different agro-ecological zones of the country. In the health sector, we have a risk of various diseases emerging, including cholera, which you may experience, and you realize that at the beginning of this year, the focus that we made in March clearly indicated that during that period, we'll have risk of cholera in the coastline of Cabrón. Thanks to the early warning by officials of the National Observatory on climate change, key stakeholders were able to anticipate the cholera outbreak that hit the country in October 2021. When we noticed there were cases of cholera, we invited the Minister of Health, the public health personnel, to see what was the exact situation, organize a series of actions. The first one to adopt protocol treatment was when people, medical doctors themselves, agreed on the protocol. The judicious use of this information helped the authorities and population in containing the epidemic that had the potential of going completely out of hand. The personnel, including the doctors, the nurses, the washed team who were in charge of hygiene and sanitation and prevention of infection spread within the CTC, we had to be on our toes almost all the times. Because each time that the patient arrived, they were either vomiting or they are making water stones so frequently, both of them are severely dehydrated and severely dehydrated means an emergency. So we had to respond very immediately. The contribution of non-state stakeholders in the fight against cholera has been significant. Emergency response strategies came from local authorities and development partners. We engaged about 200 volunteers on ground to make sure that this educates the community on basic hygienic methods or how to handle their water, how to treat their water because most of the cases we have at the cholera treatment center in Bota Limbe, most of the cases are traced to be of water borne. So we engaged in tackling these communities to educate and even treat some of the boreholes or wells or give them aquatabs to make sure that these community users should also engage with us. The Red Cross to fight the cholera epidemic. Together, let's stop cholera. So what we did at that point for the team that we had already prepared on ground is the emergency response team. We deployed the HR, our human resources, a lot of technical persons to immediately move to this location. First of all, to identify community volunteers, identify community health workers who will be responsible for carrying out community health sensitization, ensuring that the population is fully aware of the situation, what is happening, and also to equip them on preventive measures that they need to put in place while we continue to solicit for more funds to see how we could respond. The people of Limbe and other towns of the southwest region, like Bouya, are gradually joining the fight against cholera, especially with the resurgence. We are on the ground after the cholera pandemic, which has been going on and mainly at May 16, which is the first time we have detected it. We wanted to touch on the finger, the reality, and the real cause of this situation that has been going on for a long time. We went to the health center. They gave us the focus on the situation, but they also told us why the situation has been going on for a long time. That is why we came to the source of water. We have seen how this source of water, which I think has been damaged, is not totally safe because there are activities, there are salities everywhere. The youth of Salibritie must be improved. There is racism. Overall, cleanliness and protection of water sources from all sorts of contamination are critical in the effort to win the fight against cholera. To present cholera, we need to drink clean water. We have to wash our hands. We need to use clean water to cook. We need to carry water from the police chief about dirty water and dirty environment. Water comes up for rent. We take care, we keep drinking. We do not want to go to take care of water. That kind of water is not fine for people to drink. You have to take care of yourself, wash your hands before eating and keep your environment clean. The government has to do more. We have to create more taps, more boreholes so that people have to get clean water to drink and eradicate cholera that is disturbing the service at this moment. Early warning systems in place to deal with such sudden or slow-setting disasters are already leading the way. We make a summary that we send to community radius that are in partnership with the National Observatory but there are quite a few of them and CRTB as well receives this information and usually they announce it at the beginning of when we publish and validate them which we want to take this opportunity to appreciate the support we have been receiving from the Director General of CRTB because every time the alerts, even through CRTB some of the other private TV stations receive our information but an inventory of the local radios that we have in Cameroon shows that we have almost close to 240 and if we are working with just 40 you realize that we still need to cover 200. However, forecasts which provide greater precision and exactitude about the sport and are would be more beneficial. This requires the necessary means, the necessary materials, the necessary technology which should be put in place to be able to solve this problem of race that are identified but not the things are only done when the race are so caught. Yes, and I think it can only be our play. This is what the once-buzzling beaches of Limbe look like today. The government has suspended all activities in the hope of avoiding any further spread of this highly contagious disease. We are going to eat now, particularly those coastal areas. They eat themselves in the sun, the back of the sun. It is a remedy. And in such environment you can be sure that it becomes a vicious disease. This is water, yet for people of Limbe yearned for portable water.