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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...