Preventative Healthcare
For the world’s poor, sickness and death take a devastating financial toll on families, communities and businesses. Of the four billion cases of diarrhea reported each year, 88% are attributable to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene.
Most of the victims are children. The resulting deaths account for more than those killed by AIDS, TB and malaria combined. This is a tragedy, but a greater tragedy is that the problem could be solved through clean water, basic housing with sanitation, and preventative healthcare and education.
While E&O’s $500 House can provide a big part of the solution; our Preventative Healthcare Program offers another powerful resource. In this program E&O identifies and partners with mobile healthcare organizations that extend their reach to the rural poor. With a significant portion of the Southeast Asia population living either on flood fields or on/along waterways like the Tonle Sap, Mekong River and the Irrawaddy River, millions of people have limited access to basic health services, particularly during the rainy season. Basic and preventative health services can only be delivered through the use of marine-based mobile clinics. E&O supports these organizations directly.
An example of our mobile healthcare services: The Lake Clinic
Across the world, an estimated 11 million children under age five die each year from preventable or treatable diseases. For example, in Cambodia diarrheal diseases account for 17% of deaths in children under 5 and 11% of the total deaths.
- WHO
Close to half of all people in developing countries suffering at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitation deficits.
- Global Issues
Across the world, an estimated 11 million children under age five die each year from preventable or treatable diseases. In Cambodia, diarrheal diseases account for 17% of deaths in children under 5 and 11% of the total deaths.
- WHO
