Officials at KMC said that the office on Monday, too, deployed health workers in the disease hit area for the treatment of the infected and affected people.
"We are very much concerned about the disease outbreak in the area. So we deployed health workers immediately after we learnt about the outbreak," said Laxman Aryal, executive officer of KMC. He said that the KMC is coordinating with the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) to stop the infection from spreading further.
Over 150 people of Okharpauwa-4 were infected with diarrhea and viral fever that are said to have spread from Seudani village. Over 50 patients had been referred to various hospitals in the capital on Friday. The metropolis said that some of the infected people are recuperating while others have already returned home after treatment.
The KMC suspects that contaminated water might have caused the infection. KMC chief Aryal claimed that the waste dumped by the metropolis in the area has no connection to the disease outbreak because the affected village is situated quite far from the dumping site.
The metropolis said that water samples from the affected area have been collected for laboratory examination.
"Out of 19 taps in the area, people consuming water from four taps were affected," Dr GD Thakur, director of EDCD, said. He said that the health workers have collected 11 water samples and sent them to lab to see if the outbreak was caused by contaminated water.
The EDCD has also distributed chlorine drops among the residents of the area and taught them ways to treat water.
The KMC, Lalitpur Sub-metropolis, Madhyapur Municipality of Bhaktapur, and several VDCs of Kathmandu districts have been dumping waste in Okharpauwa landfill site.
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