KARACHI – In the absence of sanitation facilities, Taijee Jogi and her two dozen female relatives have to wait till night to go to the sporadic bush patches near their colony for urination and defecation.
Until three months back, they could do this whenever they wanted. But after the recent monsoon rains inundated their almost entire area, they are left with no choice but to wait until it is dark so that everybody in the colony is asleep and there are no passers-by. “What else can we do?
–snip— Consultant gastroenterologist of the Department of Medicine the at Aga Khan University, Prof Dr Hasnain Ali Shah said by doing this, a person can suffer from severe constipation and there would be lot of pressure on kidneys too. According to the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the recent torrential monsoon rains in southern Sindh have triggered serious flooding, affecting over five million people. Among them are communities, which are still recovering from last year’s extraordinary floods.
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