A local NGO, SHALON Incorporated has released findings on a survey conducted at some health facilities in Montserrado County. Five of the seven facilities accessed have infectious Committee, while there are no terms of reference, according to SHALON.
Contrary to health policy, five of the health centers do not have mortuary.
The report with support from WaterAid Liberia and Sierra Leone, also indicated that WASH facilities are available at the health centers, but lack pipe borne water system.
It appears that there’s still a need for more and robust awareness to avoid using drainages as dumpsite in Monrovia and its environs.
A case in point is the biggest drainage located in the Soniwein Community in Monrovia. Some residents in the community are persistently using the drainage as dumpsite.
A team of WASH Reporters visited the Soniwein Community to find out how the drainage in the area is posing serious health hazard to community dwellers there, since it was cleaned last year under the initiative of former Monrovia City Mayor, Mary Broh based on several reportage by the WASH Media Network.
The Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) notes with some disappointment reports quoting the Health Professions Council of South Africa’s (HPSCA) Dr Kgosi Letlape as saying that “medical aids are a crime against humanity.”
His comments come at a time, says HASA, when the South African healthcare system faces a number of urgent challenges that must be addressed if we are to improve healthcare outcomes and if citizens are to enjoy quality and accessible care and are unlikely to assist the collaboration necessary to meet these challenges.
In recent times, the City of Monrovia and other parts experienced a sharp increase in the price of a sack of locally produced mineral drinking water on the Liberian Market.
This increase in the price of a sack of water is said to be posing serious economic challenge to ordinary Liberians, and individuals who are selling the commodity to make ends-meat.
As part of World Toilet Day 2016 (November 19) Celebration in Liberia, the British Charity WaterAid has released a staggering report on the status of sanitation globally.
The finding by the British charity is contained in a report named and styled Overflowing cities...The State of the World’s Toilets 2016.
The report has revealed that India, the third-biggest economy on Earth-is the worst country in the world for numbers of urban dwellers without safe, private toilets and for open defecation, followed by China and Nigeria
