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DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES :
COUNTRIES: NEPAL :
MEDICAL: DISEASES :
SANITATION:
Monsoons Near, Nepal Focuses on Sanitation to Stem Illness After Quake
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Monsoons Near, Nepal Focuses on Sanitation to Stem Illness After Quake
By GARDINER HARRIS
MAY 9, 2015
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/world/asia/monsoons-near-nepal-
focuses-on-sanitation-to-stem-illness-after-quake.html
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PAUWATHOK, Nepal After years of intense effort, officials here in rural
Sindhupalchok district had persuaded almost all of the nearly 61,000
households to each build a toilet. Then the earthquake struck, destroying
most houses and the very toilets that could have helped stave off the
diseases that can run rampant after natural disasters.
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Now, instead of celebrating a public health triumph, residents are holding
services for their dead and digging through the rubble to find more
bodies. And relief workers are pouring into the district, hoping to
salvage the remarkable progress in improving hygiene made here in recent
years.
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There will be outbreaks of cholera and other diseases, said Antti
Rautavaara, chief of water, sanitation and hygiene for Unicef in Nepal. It
is a battle we cannot win. We can only try to minimize the pain and death.
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Two weeks have passed since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated large
swaths of this mountainous country, killing more than 7,900 people and
injuring more than 17,000. Nepals government and charitable organizations
are racing to beat monsoon season, which begins in about six weeks, to get
tents and food to as many as 800,000 Nepalis whose homes are
uninhabitable. But they say an equally urgent task is to provide clean
water and toilets before the rains make the poor sanitary environment in
these devastated areas far worse by carrying contamination into water
supplies and making direct contact with fecal bacteria almost inevitable.
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Small outbreaks of diarrhea have been reported across Nepal since the
earthquake, and although such outbreaks are routine here, they have raised
worries that the quakes aftermath is at least partly to blame. But getting
residents to consider building more toilets amid the devastation has not
been easy.
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About every fourth house in Chautara, among the districts largest
villages, is rubble. Most of those still standing are leaning precariously
or have slid down the hill. The road through town is a narrow pathway
choked with the red dust of pulverized bricks.
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A sign still standing at one end of town declares, To Defecate In Open
Areas Is To Commit A Crime. But in interviews, many residents said the
destruction had forced them to return to that now-criminalized practice.
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