{"id":1137,"date":"2014-03-24T07:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T06:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2014-03-24T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T06:39:55","slug":"displaced-kumase-people-threatened-by-diarrhoea-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/displaced-kumase-people-threatened-by-diarrhoea-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaced \u201cKumase\u201d people threatened by diarrhoea diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since they have been displaced by the administration from \u201cKumase\u201d place, they have neither food nor comfortable shelter. Some of them are suffering from diarrhoea diseases.<\/em><\/strong>-By Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Dwellings<\/a>

Dwellings of the displaced people. \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

Since 16th March 2014, 120 cases of people have been suffering from diarrhoea diseases since they were displaced from the former \u201ckumase\u201d place near Lake Tanganyika on 22February 2014. \u201cWe are suffering from diarrhoea, vomiting and malaria. The majority is formed of children\u201d, says one of their representatives.
\nWomen often think that only visible dirtiness or smelly hands are potential sources of unhealthiness despite a tap and loos installed at their disposal. This comes out from people living at Carama area at Kinama Commune in Bujumbura City Council along Bujumbura-Bubanza road, where hundreds of newly built huts and families resetlled in an unsafe place on the right side. Those huts were built by small and thin trees covered with plastic bags and grasses. One hut covers an area of 1,5m out of 1,5m with 1m high. Cynthia Akimana aged about three is suffering from diarrhoea and has been vomiting since 3 March 2014. \u201cShe hasn\u2019t got any medicine to cure her. She can pass away if I can\u2019t find any drug to her ailment,\u201d states her mother. The same situation occurs to Emelyne Manirampaye, four years old. \u201cTwo weeks ago, she suffered from malaria but she didn\u2019t get any drug\u201d, notes her mother. She indicates that she has tried to consult a doctor but in vain, due to the lack of money. \u201cAt the Health Center, it is recommended to present some documents, but these latter have all been burnt at \u201cKumase\u201d, in our former dwelling place,\u201d she indicates. For her, Good Samaritans\u2019 hearts can help them to overcome the situation. \u201cIf nothing is done, we are going to perish in that area due to the dirty hands\u2019 diseases\u201d, he adds. \u201cWe call upon the administration authority to solve our problem; otherwise, epidemic diseases will strongly affect us without any doubt\u201d, underlines the Chief of these internal displaced people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have refused to be registered\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zacharie Niragira, Kinama Administrator, states that people from that area do not want to be helped. \u201cSince they have arrived in that locality, we have many times begged them to register but in vain. We can\u2019t do anything without knowing how many they are\u201d, insists the Administrator. According to those people, they have already addressed their identification to the Ombudsman Institution, and if the administration wants to help them, it may use the list dropped there.\u201dWhile the administration officials fill out the identification forms, they want to insert our origin provinces. We don\u2019t want to go back because what has caused our displacement is still there,\u201d points out one of the displaced people. \u201cIt is impossible. We must take into account of people we see in front of us. We are not sure about what they have addressed to the Ombudsman institution. If they want to be helped, they must accept to be registered once again\u201d, highlights the Administrator.<\/p>\n

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Since they have been displaced by the administration from \u201cKumase\u201d place, they have neither food nor comfortable shelter. Some of them are suffering from diarrhoea diseases.-By Diane Uwimana Since 16th March 2014, 120 cases of people have been suffering from diarrhoea diseases since they were displaced from the former \u201ckumase\u201d place near Lake Tanganyika on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[195,367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}