The Hoima district health department has registered four serious cases of cholera since June 6.

The Hoima District Health officer, Dr. Joseph Ruyonga says that the suspects of cholera were eight but four of them were discharged from hospitals and the rest are still undergoing intensive treatment. No death case has been recorded.

The ministry of health has sent a team of health workers to Hoima to sensitize people about the outbreak of cholera and how they can avoid it.

Dr. Ruyonga says that most homesteads in Hoima district have no latrines adding that those who have them they are in poor state.

Ruyonga wonders how Sebigoro market with a large number of people having only one pit latrine. He explains that in 2002 cholera killed at least five people and in 2006 about 24 died in Kabwoya and Kyangwali Sub Counties respectively.

By Issa Asuman