This means that at least 450,000 Nigeria women will die from cooking with firewood or charcoal in 5 years if an alternative method of cooking is not introduced at an affordable rate.
Mrs Bante, a burukutu seller and a farmer, who came to arrange the firewood to generate more flame looked very tired and sick. Mrs Bante said most of the communities around Gasaki patronise a traditional doctor, ‘Dr’ Bori Danladim to cure all ailments rather than going to the hospital. Another farmer, Margaret Daniel, corroborated Mrs Bante’s experience in a separate interview with PREMIUM TIMES.
Smoke from open fire is Nigeria’s third-biggest killer with over 95,000 deaths annually behind Malaria and HIV/AIDS, according to the 2017 draft of the National Gasof the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, obtained by Premium Times, and which quoted the World Health Organisation . The women do not know that cooking with firewood is one of the major causes of the illness they have been experiencing.
She said most of them have had to stay at home and could not fend for their wards when the symptoms appear again. PREMIUM TIMES also observed that cooking with solid fuels is one of the factors that drives child mortality and morbidity. The herbalist who introduced himself as Bori Danladi said he has been in the profession for over 38 years.“Almighty God gave me the powers and I don’t carry any test out on them, once they told me how they feel, I give them the leaves and other things. People are also on admission here but we have discharged some of them. My patients come from everywhere,” he boasts.
“Eco-friendly in the sense that, its contribution of CO2 into the atmosphere is completely minimal and the fact that they are produced from agricultural wastes makes them way cheaper and affordable. A kilo of charcoal briquettes is enough to cook your meal for two days,” he said. “People cooking with firewood could also have a respiratory condition like what we call Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary disease, this has to do with long term exposure to smoke, the people will have a chronic cough, difficulty in breathing. It is usually progressive and it is irreversible; it is a progressive condition which leads to irreversible airway obstruction,” she said.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Only used in a remote area
Whaat do you expect abi you won buy them gas cookers?
Firewood jollof rice is bae😍
Do they have a choice? Prices of gas and kerosene keep rising everyday, men keep entering poverty daily, how else do you want them to survive? thats the commodity that's free and easy to reach. Though wrong but no choice.
When fire🔥wood was wildly used during our fathers what was the rate% of sickness?
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