Oct 4 2011
India's minister of development is promoting a campaign on public hygiene, after a UNICEF report found "that India accounts for 58 percent of the world's population practicing open defecation," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports. "Jairam Ramesh says the revelation is a source of national shame and a 'sad commentary' on society's failure to address the issue through education and better sanitation," the AP writes. According to the AP, the Indian government "says it spends $350 million a year to build rural toilets, but some 638 million still rely on fields or quiet corners" (10/2). The public awareness campaign is expected to last one month, according to Xinhua (10/2).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
|
UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry opens special-care dental clinic in South Texas