The number of recorded Cholera cases in Siaya County has grown to 120.

Siaya Governor James Orengo has urged citizens to help control the epidemic by practising good hygiene.

Orengo stated at the flagging off of modern ambulances at the county headquarters that a team of county government medics has set up camp along the beaches of Rarieda and Bondo sub-counties, which are the epicentres of the sickness.

He also claimed that the government has enough drugs to combat the sickness and urged people to take anyone who exhibits symptoms of diarrhoea and vomiting to a nearby health centre.


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Siaya County Commissioner Jim Njoka, who addressed the audience during this year's Madaraka Day celebrations at the KMTC grounds in Siaya town, praised the county government for acting quickly to stop the spread of cholera.

Njoka, on the other hand, urged the county government's health department to continue its assault on eateries that do not meet public health standards.

The administration urged the Siaya people to assist in the fight against illness transmission by keeping their surroundings clean and adhering to basic hygiene.

Officials confirmed that only four deaths had been reported in the county thus far, all occurring at the Bondo sub-county referral hospital.