Lack of Safe Drinking Water

දෛනිකව ඉගිනි භාවිතයට නැවත හුරුව අපගේ වකුගඩු පද්ධතිය රැකගමු

The require is far beyond the available facilities provided by the government.

1.6 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases (including cholera) attributable to lack of access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and 90% of these are children under 5, mostly in developing countries.160 million people are infected with schistosomiasis causing tens of thousands of deaths yearly; 500 million people are at risk of trachoma from which 146 million are threatened by blindness and 6 million are visually impaired.Intestinal helminths (ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm infection) are plaguing the developing world due to inadequate drinking water, sanitation and hygiene with 133 million suffering from high intensity intestinal helminths infections; there are around 1.5 million cases of clinical hepatitis A every year.

අතීතයේ තේ කෝපි වෙනුවට භාවිතා කරන ලඳ ස්වාභාවික පානයක්වූ ඉගිනි , අද දිනයේ වැඩිම පිරරිසකට දිවි අහිමි කරන බෝනොවන රෝග සඳහා සරලව නිහඬව පිළිතුරු දෙමින් ඇත.රුධිර ධාතුව පිරිසිඳු කිරීම පටන් බොහෝ ප්‍රථිපල පෙන්වනු ඇත.

The response by the nation of Sri Lanka regarding the unsafe water and related health problem needs to be urgent and comprehensive. It needs to immediately address the problem at its source by effectively regulating, monitoring and reducing the use of toxic chemicals that enter the water system, both through the industrial and agricultural sectors. It also needs to extend its safe drinking water services to cover the entire population. It needs to get better the health services it provides to cater for the growing number of persons requiring long-term health treatment for chronic kidney disease.

The national aggregated numbers of those affected are not currently identified with precision, but it is estimated that more than 6000 people are now undergoing treatment for CKDu. Sri Lanka is a developing nation and its health services struggle to meet the demands of such problems. Frequent dialysis is required for CKDu patients.  Although such deeds is existing in some hospitals, some proportion of the cost is to be met by the patient, which is totally beyond the capacity of the poor villagers affected by CKDu. The recent increase in the number of persons suffering from renal disease is one of the major physical condition problems in Sri Lanka. Since 1994, a new form of chronic kidney disease, known as CKDu, has been recognized in Sri Lanka. According to the Annual Health Bulletin 2005, the hospital humanity rate for diseases of urinary system (which includes kidney diseases) doubled during the period 1980 - 2015, from 3.1 to 6.5 deaths per 100,000 persons. At the national level, such diseases were the 11th leading cause of hospital deaths in 2005. 

However, such diseases were the most important cause of deaths in Vavuniya, the third leading cause of death in Anuradhapura, the fourth leading cause in Polonnaruwa, the sixth leading cause in Jaffna, the seventh leading cause in Trincomalee and the eighth leading cause in Badulla district.