Searching for a Restroom?
Kenyans would totally relate to Akbar Ali who found himself confused by an information board that he thought would direct him to a toilet in Al Mamzar Park in Dubai. “I thought the map of the park would help guide me to the toilets, but I could barely decipher anything. It left a lot of people lost and confused and lost” He told Gulf News Newspaper. He argued the management to maintain navigational sign-boards, something that the Kenyan City and Municipal Councils would also consider doing.
Cholera outbreak kill 119 people in one month.
- Over 20 inmates died in Kamiti Maximum prison.
- The government has now moved to curb the spread of the disease and is now appealing for Sh553 million from the treasury.
- More than 50 other inmates are admitted at both Kenyatta National Hospital and the prison dispensary.
- Cases of Cholera have been reported in 14 districts with East Pokot recording the highest deaths.
- Nairobi’s Makadara Estate and Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums cholera outbreak claimed over 20 lives and left more than 700 people requiring medical treatment.
- Recently the minister for public health and sanitation in the Global Health Conference recently held in Nairobi revealed that paediatric deaths due to diarrhoea exceed those caused by HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
- Only North Eastern, Western and Nyanza provinces have not reported any cholera related illnesses.
- In early October 2009, at least 29 people died of cholera and hundreds more were being treated for cholera-related symptoms in the larger Turkana District in the northwest and in the eastern regions of Garbatulla and Laisamis.
- In East Baringo is getting worse after 11 bodies were discovered in Kapnyung’uny area along River Suguta.
- 12 people have been admitted at Lamu district hospital after contracting cholera. There were also outbreaks of water-borne diseases in Magarini and Tana Delta district.
- According to WHO, fewer than half the rural population in Kenya had sustainable access to improved drinking water sources and sanitation in 2006.
- The population with sustainable access to improved sanitation in urban areas was 19 percent.
Water and hygienic sanitation services to the Mathare Slum Residents.
The Ikotoilet is a complete toilet mall. Beyond the basic sanitation facilities for the slum residents, the slum model Ikotoilet has a Water vending point with UV installation for the water treatment to guarantee clean portable water to the residents.
The Slum Ikotoilet incorporates low-flush toilets in both the ladies and gents toilets, waterless urinals in gent’s toilets, shower facilities, water saving taps and soap dispensers, dry toilet system – a facility for urine harvesting and water conservation, a free-of-charge toilet for the disabled, tanks for rain water harvesting, a changing area for babies, sanitary bins, full length mirror, music, shoe shine vendor, public information point, Snacks kiosks (shops) a barber/ salon shop, and other viable add-on enterprises are also encompassed in the design.
