Waste disposal in Lae
Editorial; 20/8/08
If the report from Lae yesterday is true – and there seems no reason to doubt it – we can only react in disgust at what appears to be a situation straight out of medieval Europe. The National carried a story of “dead babies and animals, and waste water from the Angau Memorial Hospital morgue … meandering their way down the storm water drains in Lae to the beach”. To this appalling collection of waste is added household refuse, oil slicks from Lae’s maritime role and human waste form the many villagers who use the coastal verges as a convenient latrine. Is there any wonder that Papua New Guinea’s child mortality rate is the worst in the South Pacific?
See: http://www.thenational.com.pg/082008/lead_editorial.php