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Town
cleanliness is still a very big problem. People are careless. At the
Central Market area for instance, vendors always leave mounds of
garbage from their daily undertakings, just lying about uncollected.
The council is also a bit slow in collecting rubbish thus letting it
to pile up. Even the people who are sent round to pick up garbage
are usually unprotected, thus could easily contact diseases during
their toils.
The drainage system in town is
also in shambles, when it rains, the entire town gets water logged.
People help themselves everywhere in town, then you have street
children salvaging the garbage heaps getting infected in the process
and likewise, spreading the disease. |
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Lack of
adequate supply of clean water could be the main cause of the
current outbreak of diseases like Cholera and dysentery.
We don’t have enough safe water to
drink let alone for washing raw vegetable and fruits, and eating
unwashed raw food cause infections.
Cholera should have been a problem
of rural communities where most people lack proper knowledge on
hygiene. It is a shame that it is still being reported in town.
Still, the Arusha municipality is
full of filth garbage and when you add the lack of water, the
problem is multiplied. |
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People
living in lower parts of the town are very much at risk of suffering
from Cholera because the current rains wash all the dirt from the
streets into their residential areas.
Traditional brews are also a
contributing factor to the spread of the disease because they are
usually made and served in extremely dirty environment.
There is also the need of ensuring
that all people, especially those living in remote, congested or
slum areas, have own latrines. |
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