Wajir officials appeal for help to contain cholera spread
Wards at the Cholera Treatment centre at Mandera Referral Hospital on May 27, 2016. The deaths of nine people and the infection of hundreds of others in a cholera outbreak have triggered panic in Wajir county, with authorities now appealing for urgent help from the national government to contain the disease.
The deaths of nine people and the infection of hundreds of others in a cholera outbreak have triggered panic in Wajir county, with authorities now appealing for urgent help from the national government to contain the disease.
Addressing journalists in Wajir town, Health Executive Habiba Maalim said the county had contained the disease in Biyamadoh where the first outbreak was reported in December, but another wave has emerged, with 120 people infected so far. She added that patients at Wajir County Referral Hospital were responding well to treatment.
