THISDAY REPORTER, Dar es Salaam
WATER-BORNE diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid and diarrhoea claim thousands of lives in Tanzania every year as a result of poor sanitation services, it has been underscored. A research official with WaterAid Tanzania, Ben Taylor, told THISDAY that between 2004 and 2005, nationwide there were 12,923 reported cases of cholera with 350 deaths, 154,551 cases of dysentery with 170 deaths, and 863,488 cases of typhoid with 1,167 deaths.
On a global scale, 5,000 children die around the world every day as a result of such water-borne diseases. Taylor said the figures are likely to be well under the actual numbers, as inadequate and unreliable data conceals thousands of deaths while many thousands die each year from diarrhoea - 90 per cent of them being children.
According to a specialist with the country’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP), Nathaniel Paynter, 17 per cent of under-five deaths are attributable to diarrhoeal diseases, making it the second largest killer of children after pneumonia.
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WATER-BORNE diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid and diarrhoea claim thousands of lives in Tanzania every year as a result of poor sanitation services, it has been underscored. A research official with WaterAid Tanzania, Ben Taylor, told THISDAY that between 2004 and 2005, nationwide there were 12,923 reported cases of cholera with 350 deaths, 154,551 cases of dysentery with 170 deaths, and 863,488 cases of typhoid with 1,167 deaths.
On a global scale, 5,000 children die around the world every day as a result of such water-borne diseases. Taylor said the figures are likely to be well under the actual numbers, as inadequate and unreliable data conceals thousands of deaths while many thousands die each year from diarrhoea - 90 per cent of them being children.
According to a specialist with the country’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP), Nathaniel Paynter, 17 per cent of under-five deaths are attributable to diarrhoeal diseases, making it the second largest killer of children after pneumonia.
http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/5071.html
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