Need economic liberation
DR. A.C OBHOLZER WRITES:
Due to poverty, fifty percent of Namibians, stay in informal settlement, in corrugated iron shacks.
A shack (home) is a shelter with four walls of corrugated iron, a door and a padlock. Due to lack of resources and security, half of these structures have no windows.
The average occupancy is six people per shack. At night, in winter even the small windows are closed. The stale air of the residents, is recycled and air borne diseases spread – TB, Covid, measles, influenza. This is compounded by residents by residents smoking in the closed shacks.
Municipal health inspectors should enforce compulsory cross ventilation in shacks with two 30 x 30cm windows with mosquito gauze.
Invest in cross ventilation (windows and a whirly bird) and spend less money on treating patients in TB wards in hospitals. You lose income.
Smoking is a no/no for lung health, and a basic healthy non-junk diet is essential.
In informal settlements with narrow one-way traffic, the speed limit should not exceed 30kph to reduce dust and prevent knocking down children.
With few simple subsidized measures, the health for the poor can improved, otherwise a shack becomes a disease incubator.
We need economic liberation!
* Rubrieke, meningstukke, briewe en SMS’e deur lesers en meningvormers weerspieël nie noodwendig die siening van Republikein of Namibia Media Holdings (NMH) nie. As mediahuis onderskryf NMH die etiese kode vir Namibiese media, soos toegepas deur die Media-ombudsman.
Due to poverty, fifty percent of Namibians, stay in informal settlement, in corrugated iron shacks.
A shack (home) is a shelter with four walls of corrugated iron, a door and a padlock. Due to lack of resources and security, half of these structures have no windows.
The average occupancy is six people per shack. At night, in winter even the small windows are closed. The stale air of the residents, is recycled and air borne diseases spread – TB, Covid, measles, influenza. This is compounded by residents by residents smoking in the closed shacks.
Municipal health inspectors should enforce compulsory cross ventilation in shacks with two 30 x 30cm windows with mosquito gauze.
Invest in cross ventilation (windows and a whirly bird) and spend less money on treating patients in TB wards in hospitals. You lose income.
Smoking is a no/no for lung health, and a basic healthy non-junk diet is essential.
In informal settlements with narrow one-way traffic, the speed limit should not exceed 30kph to reduce dust and prevent knocking down children.
With few simple subsidized measures, the health for the poor can improved, otherwise a shack becomes a disease incubator.
We need economic liberation!
* Rubrieke, meningstukke, briewe en SMS’e deur lesers en meningvormers weerspieël nie noodwendig die siening van Republikein of Namibia Media Holdings (NMH) nie. As mediahuis onderskryf NMH die etiese kode vir Namibiese media, soos toegepas deur die Media-ombudsman.
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