Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh’s city of dreams and ‘wannabe Shanghai’ is fighting with the diseases of the dark ages. The monsoon has arrived and so have the monsoon hazards too.
Three cases of jaundice, four cases of typhoid, nine cases of malaria and twenty-nine cases of leptospirosis have been already reported. The numbers will bounce when stagnant water pools flood the city.
Physician Hemant Thacker says the monsoon-related sicknesses such as typhoid, malaria, and hepatitis A and E. are rising rapidly. The health care and poor municipal functions are making the condition more badly.
The World Health Organization fixes the environmental factors such as unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene, air pollution, and poor land use management as the cause of most of the disease worldwide. One can find all of these factors as the characteristics of Mumbai. The arrival of monsoon adds fuel to the flame.
Medical experts have given advice to avoid health trouble this monsoon.
– Just avoid walking through floodwaters.
– Do not take raw food and unsafe water.
– Use mosquito repellents. This may help you to stay away from ‘monsoon related disease’.
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