Kathmandu, June 23
The government has formed a team to control cholera in the capital. After cholera was found in five persons in the capital over the course of the previous three days, the authorities started to work.
Five persons have been formed into a team, according to the District Health Office of
Kathmandu, to identify the sources of the confirmed cholera outbreak and develop prevention action. The team’s coordinator is Ram Krishna Phuyal, the district health office in Kathmandu’s focal person for epidemic and prevention control.
Two sisters from Bagbazar in Kathmandu caught cholera during the test, and it was determined that they consumed tap and tube well water. Two sisters from the same family were discovered to have caught cholera via tap and tubewell water a few days earlier. Cholera may have spread over the valley.
E. coli and coliform bacteria were discovered in their drinking water samples, according to the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division of the Department of Health. E. coli and coliform bacteria were discovered in the drinking water when analyzing the sample, according to Dr. Chumman Lal Das, the department’s head.
He says that the bacteria E. coli and coliform, which are found in human waste, are contagious.
He stated that tests were also being done on water samples from other cholera-infected
locations.
