Mbale in sanitation drive
Apr 12, 2005
MBALE district has launched a home and village improvement campaign on hygiene and sanitation to fight a cholera epidemic.
By Joshua khatiya
MBALE district has launched a home and village improvement campaign on hygiene and sanitation to fight a cholera epidemic.
Issa Bukoma, the district water officer, said people never care about their personal health and hygiene and as a result, they have promoted the cholera breakout.
This was during the launch of the campaign at Bukonde pilot sub-county headquarters recently.
Bukoma said the district water department had also come up with a six-month competition strategy for households in different sub-counties in hygiene and sanitation.
The best participants would be rewarded prizes ranging from bicycles, radio systems, blankets and basins.
He said this would motivate and help educate the masses about personal hygiene and proper sanitation.
The district council chairman, Bernard Mujasi, has ordered the sub-county chiefs with the help of local defence personnel to close hotels, shops and arrest landlords whose rental houses had no pit latrines.
Francies Abwaino, the district director health of services, said out of the 50 cholera victims admitted in Mbale hospital, three had died and 29 were found to have drunk unsafe water.
He said the most affected areas were industrial division and the municipality and the problem mainly resulted from poor sanitation and broken sewerage systems.
MBALE district has launched a home and village improvement campaign on hygiene and sanitation to fight a cholera epidemic.
Issa Bukoma, the district water officer, said people never care about their personal health and hygiene and as a result, they have promoted the cholera breakout.
This was during the launch of the campaign at Bukonde pilot sub-county headquarters recently.
Bukoma said the district water department had also come up with a six-month competition strategy for households in different sub-counties in hygiene and sanitation.
The best participants would be rewarded prizes ranging from bicycles, radio systems, blankets and basins.
He said this would motivate and help educate the masses about personal hygiene and proper sanitation.
The district council chairman, Bernard Mujasi, has ordered the sub-county chiefs with the help of local defence personnel to close hotels, shops and arrest landlords whose rental houses had no pit latrines.
Francies Abwaino, the district director health of services, said out of the 50 cholera victims admitted in Mbale hospital, three had died and 29 were found to have drunk unsafe water.
He said the most affected areas were industrial division and the municipality and the problem mainly resulted from poor sanitation and broken sewerage systems.