Day 11 ( Oct17, 2012) : BAKAS Unit

BAKAS Unit, This was a very important unit which they played an important role in maintaining health in the community by building a safe water supply system for daily usage and  construction of sewage system to dispose the wastes from the household. Today, we were given the chance to probe into the unit about its aims, duties and vision & challenges in construction of well in rural area, gravity feed system, SPAL (Sistem Pelupusan Air Limbah), SPSP ( Sistem Pelupusan Sisa Pepejal) etc.

Objective of BAKAS:
To improve the health status of the residents in the rural area by reducing the incidence of the communicable diseases, especially the water-borne/food-borne diseases and parasitic infections.

Aims:

• To encourage and improve the awareness in the residents regarding the disposal of the feces properly through the use of "tandas curah" system.

• To raise the awareness in the residents in usage of clean water from the pipe connection JKR (Jabatan Kerja Raya), pipe connection JKR/KKM(Kementeriaan Kesihatan Malaysia), Tube well, Tube well with pipe connection to the houses and gravity feed system.

• To encourage the residents to keep the cleanliness of the house by using the trash pit (lubang sampah) and controlled sewage system.

Responsibilities/ Duties

• To educate the rural population in building the toilet.
• To provide subsidies for the construction of toilet to the residents in need that lived in rural area.
  To encourage the rural population to use pipe connection JKR or JKR/KKM, build tube well connections to the houses for those area without JKR pipeline.
• To show the population the technique to make the trash pit.

• To provide the health education to the residents in raising their awareness regarding the importance of environment cleanliness.

Building the pipe connections and the gravity feed system