WAAGACUSUB:- Refugees in Kakuma camp have been treated for cholera following an outbreak.

Turkana County health and sanitation executive Jane Ajele said the 25 inhabitants were treated at Kakuma Mission Hospital.

Among the patients was a child who had experienced bouts of diarrhoea.

"We received around 25 suspected patients and when samples were sent to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention they turned out to be cholera positive. But no death has been recorded," she said.



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Ms Ajele said some of the hospitalised patients were isolated to prevent further spread of the disease.

Following the outbreak, some of the measures the Joseph Nanok-governed county has taken to stanch further infections include shutting down 20 restaurants in Kakuma town because they did not meet the required health standards.

The Health executive added that overcrowding and poor sanitation are to blame for the outbreak within the camp.

"Our surveillance team is on high alert and we have even dispatched a team to Nadapal on the border of Kenya and South Sudan to screen all new arrivals from South Sudan.