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IRINGA DISTRICT HAS SPENT 190 M/- AGAINST THE CHOLERA EPIDEMICS



Iringa District Health Officer Samwel Nkya (right)oversees the exercise of erecting red flags on households that does not use proper toilets in the district, Iringa region recently. (Photo by Friday Simbaya)




IRINGA District Council (IDC) has spent a hundred and ninety million (190 million) shillings against the cholera epidemics in the Pawaga and Idodi division in Iringa Region and is one of the 156 councils implementing the national sanitation campaign in Tanzania mainland.

Speaking at the time of delivery education of good toilet facilities in the district, health district health officer Samwel Nkya asked the people to start using the toilet to solve the problem of epidemics of the cholera that has been repeatedly affecting them.

"One of source of cholera epidemic is the use of toilets that are not so good you have to use better toilets and educate your citizens and today we give this education to the leaders, we want to bring education to the people," said Nkya.

Nkya said they offered education for toilet facilities and hand washing with soap from home-to-home level and primary and secondary schools, Colleges, religious institutions, private institutions, government institutions such as government offices and health centers aimed at eliminating the cholera disease.

"Looking so far we have succeeded in achieving a total of 24 households who have implemented this campaign through various stakeholders such as the health ministry, the water ministry (RWSSP),, the education department, the Iringa district council, the UNICEF, the SNV and the WARID in four wards, Mlenge,Mboliboli na Itunundu have begun to officially implement this campaign for the 2017/2018 financial year "said Nkya

In the February and April 2016, there was an outbreak of cholera disease in the Iringa district council where Mboliboli and Mlenge were affected by the disease while the villages of Luganga, Mnadani, Idodi and Mafuruto had a small number of cholera patients. .

Moreover Nkya said that the strategies of the district council of Iringa identify households with NGOs and sanitation, recognizing laborers and owners of rice fields, doing audits periodically to rural sanitation and hygiene education to the environment for protect yourself from cholera disease no longer appear in the council.

"We are placing the red flag households without better toilets and providing special time to improve their toilets, and even finances that will be provided to households and institutions that will not improve their toilets" said Nkya.

Nyamiki Kimsau is a citizen of Usolanga village Pawaga said that the cholera disease has become resistant to the village since citizens in the area have no toilet toilets that satisfy their health and well-being.

"We call on leaders to provide adequate education to the people so that they can know the importance of having better toilets than the present situation," said Kimsau.  By Friday Simbaya, Iringa



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