Kenya Red Cross Cholera Response After Action Review Focused on Bomet, Homabay, Nakuru and Migori Counties February to June 2015

On the 3rd February 2015, the Director of Medical Services issued a cholera outbreak alert following an increase in cases of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) in several counties. Epidemiologic investigations were conducted by the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) Disease Surveillance and Response Unit (DSRU) and the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (FELTP). The findings indicated that the cholera outbreak probably began before what had been assumed to have been the reported index case.

Following the alert, KRCS with support from IFRC (through a DREF) and the British Red Cross (by adjusting long term programme funding) intervened with a three months cholera response in some of the affected counties to help curb the spread of the infection.

This after action review (AAR) was undertaken between the 9-23rd July 2015 to document the response and lessons learned. The AAR was undertaken in the Counties of Bomet, Migori, Homabay and Nakuru.

The key objective of the review was to assess the results of the intervention against the planned outputs in order to inform future emergency operations, specifically those related to the cholera.