A ward at Naivasha sub-county hospital.
One person is admitted at the Naivasha sub-county hospital after
cholera outbreak.This comes a week after the department of public health banned food hawking outside the hospital.
According to the Star, male patient has been placed in an isolation ward.
He was rushed to the facility complaining of stomachache and diarrhoea.
Officers from the department of public health have been deployed in the area to contain the outbreak.
The department has also outlawed the dropping and picking of passengers at the hospital's gate by both matatus and motorcycle operators.
The superintendent in charge of the hospital Joseph Mburu told the Star that, the patient is responding well to treatment.
He added that cholera tests conducted had turned out to be positive which is the first case to be reported 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.