QALAT (Pajhwok): Thousands of people have been infected with diarrhea in southern Zabul province due to lack of access to clean drinking water, public health officials say.
Since last three and a half months, more than 23,000 people were infected with diarrhea disease in Zabul and seven of them lost their lives.
Zabul Public Health Department director Dr. Abdul Hakim Hakimi told Pajhwok Afghan News that recently diarrhea cases unprecedently increased in Zabul owing to lack of access to clean drinking water, bombings during the past wars and contamination of water by toxic substances and recent floods.
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