Sanitation, Hygiene and Health
Start Date: 26-02-2019
End Date: 24-02-2022
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The Government of Arunachal Pradesh launched the "Medicine from the Sky" project in 2022, with the mission of using ...
In a momentous event on January 28, Chief Minister Pema Khandu, during his visit to West Kameng district, unveiled a ...
The Arunachal Pradesh Capital Police have launched a new citizen-centric initiative called "Police Ajin," aimed at ...
In a groundbreaking move, Hon’ble Minister Shri Gabriel D. Wangsu launched the AGRIBOT drone application in ...
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
About 48 per cent of children in India are suffering from some degree of malnutrition. According to the UNICEF, water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea and respiratory infections are the number one cause for child deaths in India. Children weakened by frequent diarrhoea episodes are more vulnerable to malnutrition and opportunistic infections such as pneumonia. With 638 million people defecating in the open and 44 per cent mothers disposing their children’s faeces in the open,
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
This unhygienic environment is due to India’s historic neglect of public health services. The absence of an effective public health network in a densely populated country has resulted in an extraordinarily high disease burden.
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
. As health economist Dean Spears argued “a large part of India’s malnutrition burden is owing to the unhygienic environment in which children grow up. Poor sanitation and high population density act as a double whammy on Indian children half of whom grow up stunted”. It is not a coincidence that states with the poorest levels of sanitation and highest levels of population density such as Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh also have the highest levels of child malnutrition in the country.
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
Poor sanitation impairs the health leading to high rates of malnutrition and productivity losses. India’s sanitation deficit leads to losses worth roughly 6% of its gross domestic product (GDP) according to World Bank estimates by raising the disease burden in the country. Children are affected more than adults as the rampant spread of diseases inhibits children’s ability to absorb nutrients thereby stunting their growth.
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
There were more households with a mobile phone than with a toilet. In fact, the last Census data reveals that the percentage of households having access to television and telephones in rural India exceeds the percentage of households with access to toilet facilities. Of the estimated billion people in the world who defecate in the open, more than half reside in India.
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
According to an article in LiveMint, data has been released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) from a survey conducted in 2012; which has once again underlined the abysmal state of sanitation in the country, particularly in rural India. According to this survey, only 32% of rural households have their own toilets and that less than half of Indian households have a toilet at home.
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
The world did not achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal (MDG) sanitation target (i.e., to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation by 2015). Now, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development goal (SDG) is for everyone to have “adequate and equitable” sanitation by 2030 3.
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
Throughout the world, an estimated 2.4 billion people lack basic sanitation (more than 32% of the world’s population) 1, 2. Basic sanitation is described as having access to facilities for the safe disposal of human waste (feces and urine), as well as having the ability to maintain hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection, industrial/hazardous waste management, and wastewater treatment and disposal.
Bhawna 5 years 6 months ago
Sanitation & Hygiene
Sanitation and hygiene are critical to health, survival, and development. Many countries are challenged in providing adequate sanitation for their entire populations, leaving people at risk for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related diseases.
Mandar Das 5 years 8 months ago
Our health is indeed our wealth, and it's merely not just by keeping our body healthy, there are so many other factors that plays out in our daily habitat and lifestyle we follow. Possessing good sanitation practices and personal hygiene habits are the basic pillars how you portrait yourself as a true healthy and fit champion. These practice must start from your home first and then you can follow this in doing welfare to your society by adopting a cleanliness mission like Swachh Bharat.