{UAH} 56,000 in Namutumba have jiggers - report. this is what NRM IS PROUD OF.
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56,000 in Namutumba have jiggers - report
Posted Wednesday, May 27 2015 at 01:00
In Summary
Call for help. Local leaders blame government for failing to intervene
NAMUTUMBA.
Twenty two per cent of the residents in Namutumba District are infested with jiggers, the Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Mr David Sempa, has revealed.
Quoting a recent survey report which was carried out in the district by Actionaid Uganda, Mr Sempa said the worst hit areas are Kibale and Magada sub-counties.
"According to the research, 22 out of every 100 people in Namutumba have jiggers," said the RDC, describing the situation as "very worrying".
The district has a population of 253,260 according to the National Population and Housing census 2014 provisional results, meaning at least 56,000 residents have jiggers.
Mr Sempa, while speaking to residents last Saturday called on them to work on improving hygiene, saying that the problem has been largely caused by deterioration in levels of hygiene.
However, in a separate interview with the Daily Monitor, the vice chairperson of the local NGO Akulabula Aids Active Concern, Ms Monica Kisembye, attributed the increase to among other issues, poverty.
"It is true that the percentage of jigger infestation has been on the rise, but it is not due to poor hygiene alone. Domestic violence and poverty among the locals are part of the problem," she said.
Due to poverty in the district, Ms Kisembye said, most people cannot afford to build houses with cemented floors; neither do they have cows from which to get cow dung to seal the cracks in the earthen floors of their houses where jiggers breed from. Ms Kisembye blamed politicians for not doing much.
Jiggers continue to ravage lives of people in Busoga sub-region as a result of poor hygiene, according to medical researchers.
The local leadership blame government on reluctance to intervene and avail water in the sub-region
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