Outbreak in Bangladesh behind rise in dengue cases in West Bengal: Mamata

[Bilal9]

I lived in BD you idiot and never saw a single person ever defecate in the open or heard of the practice in my district.

Provide evidence or just take it like a champ!

What is this idiot talking about....Open defecation rate in Bangladesh has been near zero since mid 2000s.

It is the lowest in the subcontinent.

Even the poorest will invest from $12 to $60 to setup a toilet in their household.

https://apnews.com/6d881414fcc44ba89a8b47fdea037215

Meanwhile 60% of people in TN, the home of this idiot, still CHOOSE to sh*t out in the open. Just like animals. I take it back, animals (cats) will choose to hide their sh*t out of habit, if you have seen.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/141...rticle/60-open-defecation-happens-india-alone

This is Bangladesh,

This is India,

 

[Nilgiri]

The crying of people that dont wash their hands with water and soap to the tune of 65% (UNICEF) when they arent waaaahing about 3 million while taking a dump on those same 3 million nourishing the soil lol.

Of course they gotta pull 2014 articles, when UNICEF has the data from 2017 (and boy does it hurt da feelz!).

Man makes you wonder what kinda toilets these folks even run.....35% hand wash rate with claimed 99% toilet prevalence? Must be a BBS virtual paper "toilet" (gotta love those classification tinkering...just like how BBS fakes other things)

....and the reality confirms it:

Its about as brutal as the difference between the claimed BBS growth and real household income decline (from same BBS....except they didnt bother to look into it lol).

 

[Bilal9]

Hanuman lies as dark and lowly as the Hanuman face....read this and weep.....

Budget 2018: 522 Mn Indians Still Defecate In The Open, Putting Them At Risk Of Disease & Poverty


Prachi Salve

January 31, 2018

• 522 million Indians still defecate in the open–leaving many millions susceptible to disease and poverty.
  
  Access to sanitation reduces the incidence of diarrhoea–caused by bacterial, viral and parasitic infections, mostly spread by faeces-contaminated water–studies show. Diarrhoea is the leading cause of malnutrition, and is the second leading cause of death in children under five years, as IndiaSpend reported in July 2017.
  
  As of January 2018–with a year and a half left to the Swachh Bharat Mission’s target of eradicating open defecation–60 million (76%) rural households and 4.2 million urban households have a toilet, and 11 states, 1,846 cities and 314,824 villages have declared themselves open-defecation-free (ODF), according to data available on the Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission) website.
  
  “The challenge, however, will be in ensuring that ODF villages and cities are firstly, truly ODF, but more crucially that they remain so,” as Avani Kapur, fellow at Accountability Initiative, pointed out in this January 2018 article for Mint.
  
  The Centre’s expenditure on information and education–which experts say is the key to solving India’s sanitation problem–continue to remain low.
  
  It is in this backdrop that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is set to present his government’s last full budget ahead of the general elections in 2019.
  
  Access to sanitation improves child health, leads to more productive adults
  
  Sanitation is crucial for India’s plans to reduce infant mortality. The National Health Policy,released in March 2017, aims to reduce the country’s infant mortality–deaths of children under the age of one–from 41 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2015-16 to 28 in 2019.
  
  “If you live next to neighbours who defecate in the open, there are germs on the ground, lot of the people don’t wear shoes, they get their fingers on it [germs], their moms get their fingers on it and then there are flies on it and they get on the food and the entire environment is where is lot of faeces and there is lot of opportunity to get on germs,” Dean Spears, co-founder of the Research Institute for Compassionate Economics, told IndiaSpend in this August 2017 interview.
  
  This cascading effect of health hazards is corroborated by data: Diarrhoea, as we said, remains the second leading cause of death in children under five years, killing an estimated 321 children every day in 2015, as we reported in July 2017.
  
  Access to sanitation reduces cases of diarrhoea, one of the major causes of malnutrition among children, according to this World Bank study.
  
  As many as 50.2% boys and 44.6% of girls with no access to toilets are stunted, compared to 26% boys and 24% girls who live in homes with toilets, according to this September 2017 studyreleased by the National Institute of Nutrition.
  
  Source: National Institute of Nutrition
  
  Unsafe water, poor hygiene practices and inadequate sanitation are not only the causes of the continued high incidence of diarrhoeal diseases but a significant contributing factor in under-five mortality caused by pneumonia, neonatal disorders and undernutrition, according to this 2016 report by the United Nations Children’s Fund.
  
  Besides, there is also an economic cost to the problem.
  
  “If children are healthy when they are babies then they grow up stronger and taller, they are able to concentrate at school and learn more and they have higher achievement,” Spears told us in the above mentioned interview. “We find that adults are paid more and are more productive if they are born in a better disease environment. Their families get to consume more and they pay more taxes and government gets more revenue.”
  
  “If you can cause a household to stop defecating in the open, just one household, there would be money in the future but it will be an equivalent of increasing the revenue of India by Rs 20,000 per household. That’s just looking at government’s revenue, but then the family gets to eat more, there is more productivity and they will be healthier and they will be more likely to survive,” Spears added.
  
  What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Poorer: Adult Wages And Early-Life Mortality In India
  
  
  
  Source: R.I.C.E
  
  Inadequate sanitation–management of human excreta, solid waste, and drainage–costs India Rs 2.4 trillion ($53.8 billion) every year in losses due health, damage to drinking water and tourism costs, according to a January 2011 World Bank study.
  
  Allocation to rural sanitation up 33%, but sub-par spending on education hinders toilet use
  
  In 2017-18, the Centre allocated Rs 13,948 crore for SBM-G–administered by the ministry of drinking water and sanitation. This was a 33% increase over 2016-17 when Rs 10,500 crore was allocated to the programme.
  
  However, expenditure on information, education and communication (IEC)–vital for changing personal attitudes and perspectives–has been below par.
  
  The programme guidelines recommend that 8% of SBM-G and 12% of SBM-U expenditure be earmarked for IEC. In no year has this target been met.
  
  For instance, in 2017-18, only 4% of the allocations to SBM were earmarked for IEC.
  
  Consequently, 22.6% Indians who had a toilet at home but did not use one said it was because of “personal preference”, according to the Swachhta Status report 2016.
  
  “Lot of families with latrines think that if they use them, it will pollute their home and they will never be able to empty them,” Spears told us in the above mentioned interview. “To avoid all this, it is easier is to defecate in the open. It is going to be a hard problem to solve because it is rooted in these old and strongly held issues of social inequality.”
  
  As of January 2018, 11 states and union territories have declared themselves as ODF. However, only six of them have been verified by ministry of drinking water and sanitation.
  
  In rural India, 51% of 604,084 villages have been declared ODF. However, only 64% of these had been verified as of January 15, 2018.
  
  Since October 2014, 60 million households toilets have been built under SBM-G.
  
  Of Rs 13,948 crore ($2.1 billion) allocated to SBM-G in 2017-18, Rs 79 crore ($12.3 million) was for solid- and liquid-waste management. As many as 3.8% rural Indians who chose not to use toilets said broken toilets were the reason they defecated in the open, according to the Swachhta Status report 2016.
  
  The urban challenge: 58% cities still report open defecation, only 23% garbage is treated
  
  As of December 2017, 1,846 (42%) Indian cities declared themselves ODF, of which 1,337 were verified by the ministry of urban development.
  
  As of November 2017, 4.2 million individual household toilets–64% of the 6.6 million targeted–were constructed across Indian cities. Similarly, 92% of the 17,193 targeted community toilets were constructed, data show.
  
  Besides eradicating open defecation and constructing household and community toilets, SBM-U also aims to achieve 100% garbage collection and disposal. As of January 10, 2018, 68% of India’s 82,607 wards–urban administrative zones–had achieved this target.
  
  Solid waste management, however, remains a challenge. As of November 2017, India generates 145,626 tonnes of solid waste every day; only 23% of this is processed.
  
  For SBM-U–administered by the ministry of urban development–the Centre allocated Rs 2,300 crore in 2017-18, the same as 2016-17.
  
  Since 2014-15, the Centre earmarked Rs 7,366 crore for improving solid-waste management systems under SBM-U, of which only 29% has been released to states as of January 10, 2018, according to a report by Accountability Initiative.
  
  This is the concluding part in our series of eight state-of-the-nation reports ahead of Budget 2018. You can read our report on renewable energy here, on agriculture here, on urban development here, on rural jobs here, on healthcare here, on education here and on defence here.
  
  (Salve is an analyst with IndiaSpend.)
  
  We welcome feedback. Please write to respond@indiaspend.org. We reserve the right to edit responses for language and grammar.
  

 

[bluesky]

The ugly failed beggar hiding from ICE, earning less than haitians do in his squalor dump in some caliturdia tent city can only spout fake numbers:

@Nilgiri, do not worry. When the Indians learn to use indoor toilets BD members of this forum will contribute soap as well as deodorants for a week's consumption. You are talking as if Indians clean hands with soap after defecation in the streets, how silly?

It is good that Bangladesh separated itself from India where people can be sooo unhygienic. Is it not possible that the Indian land drifts to the south so that we do not have to smell the egg-rotten Indians anymore. It is too smelly to live beside India.

 

[itsanufy]

To all Bangladeshi members including @bluesky @Bilal9 todays news Bangladesh govt is sending team to Kolkata to learn dengu control.
Some more links from papers in BD
Dakha mayor flying Kolkata expert-
https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2019/08/01/mayor-atiqul-flying-in-kolkata-expert-to-control-dengue
https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/kolkata-shows-the-way-to-control-dengue-in-india-1780021
https://www.thedailystar.net/frontp...o-diagnose-dengue-fever-in-bangladesh-1776538

 

[Bilal9]

To all Bangladeshi members including @bluesky @Bilal9 todays news Bangladesh govt is sending team to Kolkata to learn dengu control.
Some more links from papers in BD
Dakha mayor flying Kolkata expert-
https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2019/08/01/mayor-atiqul-flying-in-kolkata-expert-to-control-dengue
https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/kolkata-shows-the-way-to-control-dengue-in-india-1780021
https://www.thedailystar.net/frontp...o-diagnose-dengue-fever-in-bangladesh-1776538

I know - his wife wanted a shopping trip.

But seriously, we should learn how to do things cheaply like Indians do.

Kolkata NGO's come to Dhaka to get trained on open defecation control (among other things) all the time. Mostly on our funds because they can't afford room/board which is expensive in this town.

 

[Bilal9]

By the way, Bangladesh should look into importing drones for spraying areas with standing water, breeding ground for mosquitoes (Yamaha RMax Helicopter)

DJI also makes a drone with multiple rotors.

.

 

[bluesky]

Dakha mayor flying Kolkata expert-
https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2019/08/01/mayor-atiqul-flying-in-kolkata-expert-to-control-dengue

Below is what the Japanese papers are writing about BD Dengue. It seems, there is no sure remedy found out yet. BD should seek WHO research help for the long-term eradication of Dengue. By the way, Dhaka is a dirty city but I have heard from some people that the mosquitoes that breed dengue are born in normal water and not dirty water.

The news report says that Thailand has been affected before BD was affected. But, unlike the Indians, we are not playing blame games with others. Mamata lost the election and lost her mind and also lost her diplomatic foresight. She is just another vulgar woman of India.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...-countrys-worst-dengue-outbreak/#.XUqkj-j7TIU

 

[Arthur]

This didi is funny. Did she heat her head that caused amnesia? There was a massive Dengue outbreak in West Beangal last year, many died. She was trying hard to sweep thing under the rug then too, just like now.

 

[Bilal9]

This didi is funny. Did she heat her head that caused amnesia? There was a massive Dengue outbreak in West Beangal last year, many died. She was trying hard to sweep thing under the rug then too, just like now.

Indian govts. (both the State Govt. of WB and the City govt. for Kolkata) are as ineffective if not more, compared to that of Dhaka. The deputy mayor of Kolkata (Atanu Ghosh) is the guy with the plan and was successful. One guy.

Dhaka City Mayor asked him to come to Dhaka, no one is going to Kolkata.