Bangladesh: Inadequate sanitation biggest killer of children under five

While the government claims at least 88 percent sanitation coverage, WaterAid Bangladesh said the actual sanitation coverage in the country is not more than 39 percent.

Speakers at the launching ceremony of the Water Aid Global Report on ‘Tackling the silent killer: The case for sanitation‘ said the gap must be covered by analysing the real situation, otherwise progress in the health sector is not possible.

[...] The report highlights that inadequate sanitation is the biggest killer of children under the age of five but in Bangladesh it remains the most neglected part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

It said if Bangladesh government does not allocate more budget in sanitation it will have to wait for 2022 instead of 2015 to fulfill the MDG target.

Read more: Daily Star, 30 Oct 2008