Tarime authorities enforce ban on cattle auctions, open markets in face of cholera outbreak.

An indefinite ban on cattle auctions, open markets and local brew has been instituted in Tarime District, Mara Region after a cholera outbreak has left at least ten people admitted to the Utegi Health Centre in the region.   

 

The Rorya District Commissioner, Felex Lyaniva, explained that the measures have been taken in a bid to contain the disease which according to him has already affected a number of villages in the district.  The DC went on to call upon Rorya residents to be extra vigilant and observe high levels of hygiene and to boil drinking water without fail avoid contracting the disease. 

 

He said the most affected villages include Nyanduga, Mangore, Mika and Utegi in Bukwe and Koryo. 

 

Lyaniva detailed that, including the admitted ten, at least 20 people have contracted the disease since its outbreak early this month following the on-going rains in Rorya District. 

 

“All of them except the ten patients who are still admitted to the hospital in Utegi, have been discharged after their health improved,” he said.  He also pointed out that so far nobody has died of the disease but some patients are in critical condition and have been referred to the Tarime District Hospital. 

 

Rorya Member of Parliament Lameck Airo called for concerted efforts to contain the disease in the district and urged residents to heed advice from health personnel to avoid contracting and spreading the deadly disease.SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN