Kathmandu, March 6 -- The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, which has prepared the national cholera elimination plan, has said that mass vaccination against the disease in 22 high-risk districts is the only way to eliminate it.

Those 22 districts include three of the Kathmandu Valley-Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur.

In total, 48 of the 77 districts in the country are at risk of cholera outbreak, with 22 of them at the highest risk due to poor water and sanitation conditions.

"We have already presented the National Cholera Elimination Plan to the Ministry of Health and Population for deliberation," said Dr Yadu Chandra Ghimire, the division's director. "We will proceed with its implementation once the ministry approves the ac...