Health official blames dirty environment for diseases
A healthy
environment will reduce the high mortality rate in Nigeria, says
Augustine Ebisike, Registrar, Environmental Health Officers
Registration Council of Nigeria.
Mr. Ebisike said in
Abuja on Monday that “ environmental health is paramount because if you
get your environmental health right, so many preventable deaths will be
cut short.
“Our mortality
rate; infant mortality rate are all related to environmental health; so
these are the broad issues that are posing health challenges in the
society,” he said.
According to him,
70 per cent of the diseases that cause hospitalisation in Nigeria are
not only preventable but they are environmentally related.
“If 70 per cent of the diseases that are preventable in this country
go away, what we will be left with will definitely be 30 per cent. None
of the 30 per cent of the diseases will cause an epidemic and none will
have children dying the way they are dying,” he said.
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