As the capital's streets get littered with garbage due to failure of Kathmandu Metropolitan City's (KMC) efforts to dump it, doctors on Monday warned this could result in outbreak of various diseases among residents of the capital. With the arrival of monsoon, street corners heaped with garbage pose health hazard, said Dr Laxmi Bahadur Thapa, Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control Division. Doctors pointed out that decayed garbage on the streets could contaminate drinking water sources, which would cause the spread of diseases, including cholera, jaundice, diarrhea, hepatitis, among other water-borne diseases. "The rain water can sweep away garbage to sources of drinking water resulting in outbreak of diseases," Dr Thapa said. Doctors also warned people not to eat food items sold on the road side as they might be contaminated with several bacteria. They also said people living near stinking garbage have high chances of contracting respiratory and skin diseases. KMC obstructed Meanwhile, locals at Okharpouwa obstructed Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) from dumping garbage at the nearby landfill site again on Monday. KMC faced hurdles in dumping garbage in the landfill site as locals again blocked its 18 vehicles loaded with garbage at Kagati village this morning, informed KMC's Chief Executive Officer, Dinesh Thapaliya. Since last week, locals have been creating obstruction on roads leading to the landfill site demanding that they be provided Rs 1.5 million for the repair of local schools and construction of roads. Thapaliya, however, said that the problem was not money, but that some of the locals want to indulge in politics of garbage. He said the Ministry of Local Development has been paying adequate funds, meeting their demands. Locals and political parties had assured KMC that they would not pose any obstruction to garbage disposal. "We reached there after assurances, but locals again blocked our vehicles," said Thapaliya. Posted on: 2008-06-16 19:44:18 (Server Time)