As typhoid outbreak in Fiji is reported to be getting intense, the Fiji Red Cross volunteers offered their services to help curb the eruption of the disease. This outbreak is as predicted to be caused by contaminated water and food consumption according to the ministry of health. The total number of patients reached 99 after 55 more people were detected with the disease last week.

In order to make public more aware about the infection, The Director General of Red Cross, Alison Cupit, informed that about 50 volunteers will be supporting health teams . And she also said that fresh water containers are being provided to the areas most affected.

She said, "We promised them resources, we give those trucks, going out issuing the soap and the hygienic washes for their hands, and spreading the word and posters with our volunteers, giving manpower".

Confirming the visits of Health officials and Red Cross volunteers to the rural places for awareness of the disease, Illiesa Tora, a spokesman for Fiji's Ministry for Health said, "Most of the cases have been reported in the Central Division, mostly in the rural areas where basically water is untreated or if treated, not on a consistent basis. In most of the rural areas we are encountering people are doing activities around the water source areas, where they are getting their water sources from".