WHO says more than 1.5 million people die each year from diarrheal
Over 1.5 million individuals succumb annually to diarrheal diseases, including cholera, as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), which also emphasized that the illness “is alarmingly re-emerging in numerous nations.”
Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director General of the World Health Organization, declared this Saturday evening in a video message on his official Twitter account to observe World Toilet Day (WTD).
He further stated that nearly half of the global population lacks access to safe sanitation facilities and that one in five individuals do not have a toilet.
Expanding on this, he remarked: “health systems also face challenges from the burden of increasingly resilient infections, girls leave school, and economies are affected.
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