Health teams zero in on cholera zone
What you need to know:
- Mr John Roche, the Red Cross county manager for Homa Bay and Migori, said that cases reported could be from both sides.
Health workers have focused their attention on an area in the Homa Bay-Migori border, as the fight against cholera intensifies.
Riana division is worrying medics fighting the outbreak as it is among those that keep reporting new cases each day.
This comes as eight new cholera cases were reported in Homa Bay County yesterday, increasing the number of those infected to over a thousand since its outbreak. Seventeen have since died.
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Mr John Roche, the Red Cross county manager for Homa Bay and Migori, said that cases reported could be from both sides.
“We are camping in Riana and helping the Health ministry to supply the hospitals and health centres with rectal lab collection kits to ensure that all the diarrhoea cases are analysed and tested before they are pronounced as cholera-related,” he said by phone.
Dr Thaddeus Ondingo, the Ndhiwa District Hospital medical superintendent, said health workers were worried that Riana keeps reporting new cases but they were moving from door to door monitoring the hygiene situation.
