Nigeria ranks second after China in child mortality record, just as
diarrhoea claims 500,000 children worldwide daily, Dr Otive Igbuzor, the
Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and
Development, has said.
Igbuzor said this, on Wednesday, in Abuja at the opening ceremony of
the staff training on Community-Led Total Sanitation and Waste
Management.
Community-Led Total Sanitation is a United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF)-assisted project aimed at contributing to the improvement of
environmental health by addressing behavioural change related to
sanitation and waste management by promoting community participation.
“The fact is that children die every single day in Nigeria. The rate
is only second to China and it is unacceptable,” Igbuzor said.
He noted that the proportion of the Nigerian population with access
to basic sanitation was still very low, adding that many people were
dying from diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera.
“These diseases occur because people defecate in bushes around their
houses and when rain falls, it washes it into the river and the water is
consumed by individuals,” he said.
The News agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that the organisation last
year focused on the Durunmi and Ruwan Fulani communities both in the
FCT.
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