The Nairobi County government has moved to contain the outbreak of cholera in the capital by cracking down on unlicensed eateries.
According to Dr Bernard Muia, the county's Health executive, who spoke to a local daily, public health officers will be cracking down on unregistered water vendors as well.
“I have instructed public health officers to ensure that eateries without licences and are being operated without even a toilet be given 24 hours to conform to the provisions of the Health Act or risk being closed down, and owners arrested and arraigned in court,”
Dr Muia also said added that water bowsers not registered with the county or the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company will be banned.
“Our health officers are now going round the city looking at the water tankers to validate whether they are registered and also to know the status of such water being supplied,” he said.
This comes after the recent outbreak, which affected officials including Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, his Trade counterpart Adan Mohammed and Trade Principal Secretary Chris Kiptoo.
This is after the officials ate food served during a trade event at the KICC on Friday.
“The source of cholera in the big hotels is the food outsourced from outside.
“We have now instructed the hotels not to handle the foods that have not been checked by our public health officers,”