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| Mumbai copes with monsoon maladies |
| It happens year after year, yet Mumbai's civic authorities never seem to learn. The monsoon in the city brings with it disease and death and this year
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| INDIA
, 17-July-2007
10:27:21 AM |
| It happens year after year, yet Mumbai's civic authorities never seem to learn. The monsoon in the city brings with it disease and death and this year is no different.
While more people suffering from rain related diseases are being admitted to Mumbai's hospitals, the civic administration claims that the situation is better than last year, simply because more people died last year compared to this year.
Three-year-old Sahil has high fever and loose motions since the past week. His parents took him to a doctor on Tuesday for a blood test to check for malaria.
Sahil is one of the thousands of unrecorded cases in Mumbai of people in the grip of rain-related diseases. His five-year-old sister has just recovered from jaundice.
Like her Sahil has fallen ill because the BMC water supplied is filthy.
''The water is filthy, it stinks. We always filter and boil it but even then the stench does not go away Varsha Mainkar, Sahil's mother.
Like Sahil, Mangal Kamble, also a resident of Worli BDD Chawl where a large number of rain-related diseases have been reported is ill with malaria.
Mangal says the disease has spread because of the filthy surroundings. There are only six toilets for 20 families and they are not cleaned everyday. Garbage lies all around uncollected for days.
''Why can't the BMC fine locals who throw filth out?'' said Mangal Kamble, local resident.
On its part, the BMC claims that this year fewer rain-related deaths have been recorded this year in the same period.
More people are in hospital, they say, because this year more private hospitals are reporting cases to them.
''We are doing all we can to take care of public health. In the private domain, people need to be more responsible,'' said Kishore Gajbhiye, Additional Municipal Commissioner.
The uncleared garbage in Worli's BDD chawl is a testimony to the work not done by the BMC.
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