Authorities in Namayingo district have confimed that three out of the four people whose samples were taken tested positive to Cholera.
Deputy Resident District Commissioner, Trevor Solomon Baleke told the Eye Media Tuesday July 25, 2023 evening that, “it is true and our DHO and his team are doing everything possible to ensure the disease doesn’t spread.”
Baleke said all Health Inspectors and Health Assistants have pitched camp in the island subcounty of Sigulu to sensitize the public on food handling and hygiene.
“Yesterday our district team met all the VHTs of Sigulu sub county and today we have grouped the Health Inspectors and Health Assistants and allocated each team a village where they are managing the situation,” he said.
Mathias Namuhaywa Mangeni, the District Health Inspector told the Eye Media that the three patients were admitted in the isolation ward and were responding to treatment.
“Being an island, our people in Sigulu don’t have pitlatrines and their hygiene is so poor. Therefore the teams on ground are carrying out sensitization. We have also asked all drug shops in Sigulu to stock chlorine such that those who cant boil their drinking water are encourage to chlorinate it,” Mangeni explained.
In September 2018, the government launched a national cholera vaccination campaign that aimed to vaccinate over one million people in cholera prone areas.
Cholera is an infection caused by the bacteria and affects the intestines. The main symptoms are watery diarrhea and vomiting. This may result in dehydration and in severe cases grayish-bluish skin.
Transmission occurs primarily by drinking water or eating food that has been contaminated with faeces.
