Indian or foreigner, you will not be surprised to hear that one of the first and most shocking things I learnt when I moved to India recently involved toilets - or rather the lack of them. Jairam Ramesh, who was at the time the minister responsible for sanitation, explained that between 400,000 and 500,000 Indian children under five die each year from diarrhoea, the largely preventable result of poor hygiene.
不管是印度人還是其他國家的人,在聽到我最近去印度發現的最令人震驚的事跟廁所有關時,都不會感到吃驚。準確來說,是印度廁所的稀缺程度。時任印度衛生部長的賈伊拉姆?拉梅什(Jairam Ramesh)解釋說,印度每年大約有40萬到50萬五歲以下兒童死于痢疾,這種由糟糕的衛生狀況導致的結果在很大程度上是可以避免的。
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