Who would have thought that lack of sanitation could be deadly? According to the research I have conducted on public toilets and sanitation in India, the percentage of lack of sanitation is incredibly high. This particular topic caught my attention because I knew about public toilets in India. For example, I have already been told that 53% of India's population defecates in the open. It was very interesting and I wanted to know more. India is a large country and is riddled with a number of health problems such as lack of public toilets, unhygienic facilities and general environmental hygiene issues. Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine reveals that lack of sanitation is the cause of some of the deaths in Bombay. In chapter 7, Fatima finds herself in a hospital where the poor of Mumbai go to seek medical care. The nurses at Cooper Hospital want to avoid touching her. Her husband has to apply the burn cream to his wife himself as the nurses refuse to do so, and that is their job. There is a doctor who has no problem touching Fatima. He would come in and stretch out her arms and as he did so, her bandages would come off. As a doctor, you'd think he'd go get new bandages to put on Fatima; instead, he put the same bandages back on her. The doctor who put the dirty bandages back on Fatima may have contributed to her death. Katherine Boo may have added this scene in the book to make readers understand that India is much poorer than we think. People died every day at Cooper Hospital in Mumbai in different conditions and such unsanitary conditions make the deaths even worse. Boo clarified that the lack of cleanliness is high and something… half of paper… an average family in a program community could save up to US$7 per month (or 5% of the families monthly cash expenditure) to meet costs, but would not reduce disease costs. The poorest and most socially marginalized families benefited the most, in line with the objectives of the program. (535)This assessment had a moderate but significant impact on the reported adoption of faucets and toilets. It was found that 13% more private taps and 7% more private toilets were used in the program villages than in the control villages. There was no impact on hand washing or household water treatment. Changes in the use of taps and toilets have reduced costs in households. This also prevented people from going out and defecating in the open, as well as decreasing ongoing sanitation-related diseases. This has positively affected many lives in India.