A cholera outbreak has been reported in Naivasha with one patient admitted at the sub-county hospital.
The male patient has been placed in an isolation ward.
He was
rushed to the facility complaining of stomachache and diarrhoea.
Following the outbreak, officers from the department of public health have been deployed in the area to contain the outbreak.
The patient's house has been disinfected.
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The move comes barely a week after the department of public health banned food hawking outside the hospital.
The department has also outlawed the dropping and picking of passengers at the hospital's gate by both matatus and motorcycle operators.
According to the superintendent in charge of the hospital Joseph Mburu, the patient was responding well to treatment.
He added that cholera tests conducted had turned out to be positive.
He said this was the first cases in the town.
“Last week we had two cases of a woman and mother and her child but tests turned negative and they have since been discharged,” he said.
“We are working with the department of public health to make sure that the ban on food hawking mainly around the hospital gate is effected,” said Mburu.
Meanwhile, the county government has moved in to rehabilitate an open up the clogged drainage systems in Naivasha town.
This came as heavy rains continued to pound the town and its environs flooding major roads and adversely affecting the flow of traffic.
According to Naivasha sub-county administrator Julius Nyaata, the exercise would target all major drainage systems in the town.
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