Douala, faces sanitation problems

The drains and gutters of the economic city are choked with so much filth that it exposes people to cholera, malaria.

All the gutters of the city of Douala are blocked by waste, without any exception in the district, even at the administrative headquarters, Bonanjo.

The regular stagnant water from rains are all around including places near Governor of the Littoral region and it is a palpable proof. This also leads to flooding in rainy seasons.

The central market in Douala looks nice on the surface leaving the surrounding gutters and drains in bad shape. "People here are very dirty, they urinate, do 'POO' and throw garbage everywhere and yet they have a trash bucket", indignant Souleymane.

The rainwater (circulating through drains, gutters and other trenches) are used elsewhere in domestic work.

According to health workers approached, their use is not without consequences. "It is impossible to believe that such waste water could be used by certain people. unknowingly, they can do laundry these kinds of water when they flow into other water sources. This however tends to be the ways water can cause cholera, skin and other infections.

It can also promote the proliferation of the female Anopheles mosquito that causes malaria," teaches a medical staff approached to the Health Centre based at the public school of Bonapriso Group 2.

As a means of prevention, our source advised that "do not let children play close to stagnant water in this period". Taking advantage of the floods, some owners of the houses open their septic tanks to evacuate waste.