The universalism of basic sanitation saves R 50 million per year

In 2024, Brazil was entered 344.4 thousand people hospital Lack of access to drinking water and sewage collection and treatment, diseases related to inadequate environmental sanitation (DRSAI).

The universalization of basic sanitation should almost be admitted to the hospital 70% According to a study of the Brazilian Institute, the R 49,928 million savings per year in the United Health System (SU), the former impartial partnership, was published on Wednesday (19).

In the long run, there is also the study that the economy will be in hospital expenses R 25 1.255 billion.

Last year, almost half of the disinfectant diseases were represented in the hospital, 169,000 a year. Almost this number (164.5 thousand), has to pay To dengue virus.

The other half refers to natur transmission diseases such as diarrhea and hepatitis A, with 47.6%, or 163.8 thousand cases. In the northeast of Brazil, 77% of the hospital is hospitalized.

In the states, Maranho (93%), Sear (84.1%) and Rio Grande Do Norte (83.2%) have the largest percentage. In the north and insects, there are also FEC-Oral diseases. In the case of Para, the hospital rate is the highest indicator in the area: 18.2 cases for ten thousand residents.

The study shows that a group of diseases has a higher reduction since 2008, 6.8%per year.

The deaths of diseases associated with lack of basic sanitation

The lack of basic sanitation led to the death of 11,544 people in 2023, according to research. Diseases of Feces represent almost half of the transmission deaths 49.1%, or with 5,673 cases.

Cities have been observed with the increase in DRSAI mortality between 2008 and 2023 in almost every state in the country. In 5,570 Brazilian cities, only 1,031 of the mortality rate declined, 2,791 stable and 1,748 municipalities showed the increased death rate.

Children and the elderly are mostly affected

Last year, the country was involved in 70,000 hospital in children aged 0 to 4 years – 20%of the total hospital for these diseases.

In 2023, DRSAI counted 601 deaths in children aged 4 years. In children who are 5 to 9 years old and 10 to 19 years of adolescents, another 203 deaths have been reported.

In the senior age, the study shows that the hospital rate of diseases related to lack of sanitation is also high: 23,664 cases for every ten thousand elderly.

Four years old and elderly children adapt to 43.5% of the total hospital. Research shows that wheat, yellow and indigenous people are most likely to be affected.

What are diseases related to inadequate environmental sanitation (DRSAI)?

• Diarrhea, salmonellosis, cholera, amoebiasis, typhoid fever, hepatitis A;
• Diseases transmitted by vector insect such as dengue, yellow fever, malaria and throat;
• Diseases transmitted by contact with water such as skistosomiasis and leptospirosis;
• Hygiene -related diseases, conjunctivitis, dermatophytosis;
• Geohelminths and Tenia, Ascarius, Cysticocosis.