COVID-19: an illness of hand washing
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In the fight against coronavirus, one of the most important barrier rules is washing hands with running water always. But how do we wash our hands with running water when we do not even have standing water. That is the case in some places in Cameroon where there are a lot of areas like the Norther region, the Extreme Northern Region, Magba in the Western Region were seeing the precious liquid is being very lucky.
People walk for tens of kilometers to find water. Most of the time not even clean water and at times the same water is shared with cattle. In the Maka village in Magba Noun division in the Western Region, water is scares that money. “It is a big problem here in Maka. Starting even from the chiefdom, we do not have clean water, we do not have wells for potable water. Worse of all at the dam it is stagnant water that carries all sorts of germs”. Said the village Chief. Pointing at a water pump, the village head said “This water pomp was built since 1985 and it worked for 5 year” meaning that for 30 years, the inhabitants of this village have been without clean water. “To find water here we have to go very far, for a distance of about 15 to 25 kilometers” the Chief precised.
With such scarcity of water, what will happen in that locality if it so happen that one person is infected of coronavirus?
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