Meru County Moves to Prevent Cholera Outbreak

Meru County Moves to Prevent Cholera Outbreak

The county residents have been advised to wash hands, take treated or boiled water and eat food in authorized food joints.

The county Director of Public Health Services Patrick Kariuki said that the department has banned all unlicensed food hawking and closed unlicensed food joints to prevent the spread of the disease.

“We are encouraging the people in urban and rural areas to ensure that they are taking safe water. We have also banned food hawking and we are discouraging our people not to take food in the streets because that is one of the ways cholera can spread because of the contamination,” said Mr. Kariuki.

The initiative by the county government comes in the wake of a cholera outbreak that has affected several counties including Nairobi where eight people have died and over 130 other admitted to hospitals.

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