The Nairobi county health department on Monday failed, for the second time, to release results of an investigation into the outbreak of Cholera at Weston Hotel a fortnight ago.
More than 50 people who were attending a conference at the hotel allegedly contracted the disease.
They were admitted to hospitals, treated and later discharged.
The results of the probe were expected to be made public on Monday following the formation of a task force by health executive Bernard Muia to investigate the incident.
But Muia said the committee is yet to conclude the investigations as it was "still putting some heads together."
“This is a scientific research which obviously takes time. The committee is working retrogressively to know the cause and where the condition came from,” he said.
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Muia added: “Also, of course where the two levels of governments are involved there must be processes which must take time."
He, however, did not give a specific date when the results would be released only saying, “we expect it soon.”
Initially, Governor Evans Kidero had instructed Muia to investigate and release the results in two days, on June 27.
But Muia said it was practically impossible to conduct a scientific research in days.
Also read; 50 hit by cholera outbreak at Weston Hotel health conference
The executive instead formed a 15-member task force comprising the county health officials, Ministry of Health, Doctors Without Boarders, Amref, the Kenya Red Cross and the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company.
Muia had said that the outcome of the probe would be made public in two weeks, which ended today.
The county had two weeks ago confirmed that tests from the National Public Health Laboratory showed that six out of 24 samples taken from 50 patients, who were admitted to hospitals in the city, turned positive for cholera.
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