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Indonesia: 100,000 infants die yearly

Shiloh

Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://forum.banjarmasinpost.co.id/read/artikel/11125/100000-bayi-meninggal-akibat-diare

100.000 Bayi Meninggal akibat Diare
Selasa, 28 April 2009 | 16:43 WITA

Google translation:

Saturday, 18 July 2009 | 25 Rajab 1430 H


100000 Baby Died due to Diarrhea
Tuesday, 28 April 2009 | 16:43 WITA

SOLO, TUESDAY - As many as 100,000 infants die each year because of diarrhea, diseases that kill the number two channel breath after acute infection.

"The main high infant mortality because of poor management of sanitation and access to clean water," said Head Subdirektorat Water and Waste Water Directorate of Settlement and Housing Bappenas Nugroho Tri Utomo in the City Sanitation Summit V in Solo, on Tuesday (28 / 4).

Low access to sanitation impact on the increase in number in pain, low productivity, and cost of additional treatment, Ironically it is more often the poor overwrite.

Awareness of sanitation in urban areas in Indonesia in general is still low, this can be seen from the government budget in APBD districts. "Budget sanitation development at this time that the government budget is in the district / city average of just one percent, and this is clearly very small, the benefits of sanitation, this is very unusual for us all," he said.

For the development of sanitation in Indonesia required the funds of Rp 21.8 trillion per year. Now there are 35 new city budget from the budget for sanitation over one percent, although there is a need of handling 265 districts.

Poor sanitation cause 50 percent of this river that traverse urban areas in Indonesia, water is not used as raw materials drinking water due to waste.

Touching river pollution, almost 70 percent of river pollution in India due to domestic waste. "For the importance of sanitation must continue to be encouraged this," he said. (Antara)
 
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