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Prosecutor Thales Ferreira, head of the Human Rights and Citizenship Prosecutor’s Office, reverberated data on the situation of Basic Sanitation in Acre during an interview with Podcast on Cena, from Contilnet, last Monday (31). According to him, 75% of hospitalizations in Acre hospitals are due as a result of inappropriate sanitation.
Thales Ferreira stressed that precariousness in this area has a direct impact on public health, with an alarming number of hospital hospitalizations resulting from the lack of adequate infrastructure.
Sewage discarded in Rio Acre, in the Acrean capital/ Photo: Val Fernandes
“As I said, 75% of hospitalizations in hospitals here in Acre are due to inadequate basic sanitation issues. So we need organized, connected, concrete, effective and effective actions regarding the basic sanitation,” said the prosecutor.
The prosecutor also pointed out that there are successful models and initiatives in other parts of the country that could be adapted to acrean reality.
Thales Ferreira also spoke about the open -air dumps in the state/ Photo: Contilnet
“These are issues that demand money, right? Basic sanitation is an issue that is expensive, but there is Brazil, several models, several projects, several lines of initiative that can be taken,” he explained.
Thales explained that the Public Prosecution Service has acted on several fronts to improve the situation, including human rights, environment and housing prosecutors.
“We still have a program called Sanead Cities, which is to arrive, ending those dumps in the city. We arrived in Sena Madureira, for example, the dump was covering the highway. So we wanted to end that situation until the creation of landfills, because that water, that slurry contaminates all water and leads to this issue of basic sanitation,” he said.
According to data from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in Acre, 12.7% of children and adolescents live in places that do not have access to channeled water, which classifies the state as in “extreme situation”.
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Also according to the study by UNICEF, in the state, 31.5%of children and adolescents still live in areas without access to basic sanitation, followed by Amazonas, with 23.5%, from Maranhão, with 19.8%, and Piauí, with 13.7%.
