Indian or foreigner, you will not be surprised to hear that one of the first and most shocking things I learnt when I moved to India recently involved toilets - or rather the lack of them. Jairam Ramesh, who was at the time the minister responsible for sanitation, explained that between 400,000 and 500,000 Indian children under five die each year from diarrhoea, the largely preventable result of poor hygiene.
不管是印度人还是其他国家的人，在听到我最近去印度发现的最令人震惊的事跟厕所有关时，都不会感到吃惊。准确来说，是印度厕所的稀缺程度。时任印度卫生部长的贾伊拉姆•拉梅什(Jairam Ramesh)解释说，印度每年大约有40万到50万五岁以下儿童死于痢疾，这种由糟糕的卫生状况导致的结果在很大程度上是可以避免的。
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