Bangladesh – Full sanitation coverage can reduce all diseases

Speakers at a sanitary latrine distribution ceremony today said the number of water-borne and all other common diseases would be reduced significantly as soon as full sanitation coverage is achieved throughout the country.

They urged all stakeholders, educated and conscious sections of people, public representatives, politicians, civil society members, teachers and students to sanitize every house throughout the country for making a healthy as well as wealthy Bangladesh.

They said this at the distribution ceremony organised by Rural Economic Support and Care for the Under-privileged (RESCU) people on Bahanno Bazaar Non-government Primary School premises in Mithapukur upazila in the district.

A total of 46 sets sanitary latrine materials were distributed among 46 distressed families of Khoragach union of the upazila under the financial assistances of Bangladesh NGO Foundation as part of the government’s ongoing sanitation programme.

Chaired by founder of the non-government primary school Abdul Kader, the ceremony was attended by Executive Director of the RESCU M Fazlul Haque as the chief guest while its executive committee member Alhaj Rafikul Islam attended as the special guest.

Local union member Shaheb Ali, teachers Abdul Alim, Monwara Begum and Mohammad Syed, social worker Abdul Mannan, headmaster Mesbahur Rahman, Branch Manager of the RESCU Ziaur Rahman and its Administrative Officer Ekramul Haque, addressed it.

Source – The New Nation