If immediate and stringent actions are not taken to clean up Karachi, the city will experience an epidemic of disease
KARACHI: I would like to thank the Sindh chief minister for his concern over upgrading health facilities in hospitals in the province. However, please realise there can never be good health without cleanliness. Karachi has become a huge garbage dump. Piles and piles of garbage lie scattered all over, hindering traffic and pedestrian movement. Gutters are overflowing near eateries, a foul smell emanates from the same and passersby inhale the polluted air and consume the food prepared in the impure environment. Dengue has already attacked the city. If immediate and stringent actions are not taken to clean up Karachi, the city will experience an out of control epidemic of disease.
Isn’t it the duty of every citizen to keep the city clean? If the city administration provides us litter bins, we can throw the garbage there instead of tossing it onto roads. To generate funds, big businesses can be asked to donate cleaning equipment like dumpsters that flatten and make the garbage compact, litter bins, trucks with tarpaulins, trolleys, rakes, and brooms and, simultaneously, the public should be mobilised to make efforts to clean up the city. This is the attitude that developed countries have; people there do not wait for sweepers to clean up the mess they create.
Fatema Futehally
Published in The Express Tribune, November 2nd, 2015.
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