Diseases and Health Care
Diseases
Diarrhoea, parasitic infestation and fecal oral epidemics are due to poor sanitation and no access to basic facilities such as restrooms. In India,
15 hundred thousand children die each day because of diarrhoea and every 15 seconds a child dies because of water related diseases. According to Gethin Chamberlain, nearly 2 million Indian children die under five each day and that is the highest number all over the world. Ways that all of this could be prevented is by aiding them with clean water and providing them access to basic facilities; restrooms being the main one
Health care
According to Gethin Chamberlain, Indian state healthcare was supposed to be opened to all and supply both rich and poor with the necessary healthcare, but to date they have failed to do that.
They have not been out to reach the slum areas and get them the healthcare they deserve. Sometimes, people in the slum get sick and start to develop symptoms that later on turn out to be a mortal disease, but the two reasons why they do not go and seek help is because
1. It is considered luxury to them and
2. The medical help is sometimes too far to go and by the time they get there the sick do not always make it (Shireen Miller).
Sometimes, the ones who are lucky enough to make it and get medical assistance are not treated properly. They are being vaccinated with used syringes that sometimes have been used more than 10 times on different people with different diseases. This leads them to get more illnesses and exposes them to death much faster. Children sometimes find these syringes when they are playing around and they pick them up and go resell them for 10 cents each, or they use it to drink water. This is something that should not be happening but unfortunately it is, due to the healthcare being unattended and not treating them the right way.
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