Stop Sharing Houses With Animals â€" Pallisa RDC

May 08, 2002

PALLISA resident district commissioner Geoffrey Kyomukama has advised rural communities in the district to desist from sharing houses with grown-up children, animals and chicken.

By Jonathan Angura PALLISA resident district commissioner Geoffrey Kyomukama has advised rural communities in the district to desist from sharing houses with grown-up children, animals and chicken.He said the practice was common in the district and bred ill-health and promoted immorality. Inaugurating the hygiene and sanitation programme in the district at Pallisa town council on Thursday, Kyomukama said diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery and TB were rampant in the district because people lived in squalid unventilated huts shared with children, animals and birds.He said the problem was compounded by unclean homesteads most of which lacked latrines. He urged the local leaders to sensitise the people on the need for hygiene.Pallisa woman MP Jennifer Namuyangu, the programme coordinator, told the people to elect leaders with clean homes.She said living in a clean environment keeps them healthy and productive, hence reducing poverty. The programme, funded by the ministry of health under primary health care, involves sensitising the people on sanitation. Ends

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