There is a tendency sometimes when talking about an emergency operation like this one to focus too much on the international assistance side of it. International aid does play an important role. But the most important work is always done by local people. This is certainly the case here in Zimbabwe.
I found myself thinking a lot about Nyengera, the nurse running the clinic in Kyekye. He and his team were working 22-hour days during the peak of the outbreak, sleeping fitfully and fleetingly. They were absolutely overwhelmed, but that was not a reflection on their commitment or comptency. They didn't have the resources or the necessary support. That's where we - the international aid workers - could and did help.
This morning, before leaving Gweru - the capital of Midlands province and our base camp during our time at Kyekye - we went to the local Zimbabwe Red Cross training centre. There, Rachel Meaghers, a public health specialist from the Canadian Red Cross, was running a workshop for about 40 nurses from the province.
She explained to me that many of these nurses hadn't much experience in responding to this kind of health emergency, so for the past weeks the Red Cross Red Crescent has been running a series of refresher courses for the people who work on the front line of the crisis.
Such a simple idea, yet so effective.
According to Rachel, the training sessions have contributed to profound drops in the number of cholera deaths - up to 80 per cent in some districts.
We left Gweru early in the afternoon and drove south for a couple of hours to Gwanda. We met with Nhlanhla Twala, the Zimbabwe Red Cross' provincial manager for Matabeleland South, who confirmed what we had already seen and heard elsewhere - that this epidemic had taken a new twist - one of hide and seek in the bush.
But Nhlanhla had other concerns. He is worried about malaria. There has been a lot of rain to date and the illness is endemic in this province. Imagine that: no food, no running water or sanitation, a severe risk of cholera, and now a fear of malaria.
One final note. I spoke to the head of the British Red Cross mass sanitation unit this morning. In the next few days, his team and a gang of local Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers will start building an array of latrines at Tiger Reef (the mining town near Kwekwe). This will have a huge impact on containing that town's crisis.
His concern now - one shared by all of us here in Zimbabwe - is finding money to continue this kind of adaptive programming. Despite the undeniable need, and despite the value of the work we are doing, our operation is only 41 per cent covered financially. We need more money.