Simple solutions save lives
'Right to Water, Right to Life' is the title of a conference marking the first International
Day against Child Diarrhoea, an easily treatable disease which kills up to two million
children a year across the developing world. The initiative, aimed at focusing attention
on the causes of and simple solutions to this problem, takes place on December 23rd
at the National Institute for Health Migration and Poverty, based at San Gallicano
hospital in the Trastevere area of Rome. The director of the Institute is Dr Aldo Morrone – he explains why he and his team wanted to launch this international day against diarrhoeal diseases at Christmastime -
Listen....
'We call it a simple solution because it is enough (to take) a glass of water, some spoons of sugar and a pinch of salt...."
'It is very easy to combat this killing of innocents......we decided to launch this initiative on December 23rd, close to Our Saviour's birth, to say (that as) a child is born, we want to save many children's lives".
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