Illegal alcohol continues to kill as three people were hospitalized in Kakamega on Sunday, more than 80 people have died after drinking a batch of illegal liquor in Kenya police report said last Wednesday.
Consumption of illegal brew is common in Kenya where common man can not afford company made beers, recent death in Kenya is the largest number of people who have died in a single incident.Investigations into the source of the drinks is ongoing National disaster operation said on twitter.
The most affected counties are Embu, Murang'a,Makueni and Kitui where more than 60 had been reported to have died on Thursday and dozen had been hospitalized, recently more five people died in Naivasha, Interior cabinet secretary has warned that,anyone found to have manufactured the liquor in the affected areas will face murder charges.
Where else as Kenya deaths continues to increase WHO has released its report where 3.3 million people worldwide died in 2012 from harmful use of alcohol. That is 5.9 percent of all deaths world wide, it measured alcohol consumption based on equivalent of litres of pure alcohol consumed on average, each of the 38.3 percent of people over 15 years old worldwide who drink consume 17 litres {4.4 gallons of pure alcohol per year.That is around 1.5{0z} every day.
Of course the question isn't so much the quantity of people drink but how they do it,according to WHO ,alcohol related harm is determined by volume consumed pattern of drinking and lesser extent the quality of alcohol " We found out that worldwide about 16 percent of drinkers engage in heavy episodic drinking often referred to as 'binge drinking which is harmful to the health " Dr Shekhar director for mental health and substance abuse at WHO said.
Alcohol caused the deaths of 7.6 percent of men and 4 percent of women in 2012 where more people in countries where alcohol consumption has been low like China and India are increasingly taking up the habit as their wealth increases however drinking is linked to more than 200 health conditions including cancer and cirrhosis,report on oncology 2013 went further to say when it comes to cancer no amount of alcohol is safe alcohol makes people to be more prone to contradicting or worsening infectious diseases like tuberculosis,HIV, and pheunomia WHO found.
Most deaths attributed to alcohol around third are caused by associated diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.WHO calls its 194 members countries to take more steps to reduce drinking like taxing alcohol more and fighting illegal alcohol production.It hopes to reduce harmful drinking by 10 percent by 2025
This report clearly shows not only Kenya is affected with illicit brew, it is a disaster worldwide where it is estimated after every 10 seconds a person dies worldwide.
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