Public latrines not for local residents: VR Environmental Health and Sanitation Office - Graphic Online

Those who reside successful communities without their ain toilets are infringing  connected the rights of others,  the Volta Regional Environmental Health Director (REHD), Stella Kumedzro, has said.

She explained that nationalist latrines are meant exclusively for usage by radical successful transit and not section residents.

“Toilet and sanitation are present a quality rights contented and those who reside successful the communities without their ain toilets are infringing connected the rights of others,” she said.

In an interrogation to people World Toilet Day (WTD) Ms Kumedzro said that those who engaged successful unfastened defecation, for instance, were creating a nuisance successful the communities with the violative odour from the excrement.

Further, they posed wellness threats to the assemblage from the run-offs from the excrement successful times of rains and flies which dispersed it successful the neighbourhood, the REHD said.

The time is an authoritative United Nations planetary observance time to animate enactment to tackle the planetary sanitation crisis.
Ms Kumedzro said the portion had a household colonisation of 491,373, retired of which lone 285,180, constituting 54 per cent, had latrines.

In the determination superior Ho, she said, retired of the 59,594 households, lone 27,415, comprising 47 per cent, had latrines.

The REHD said that inclination did not warrant the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goal 6 which aimed astatine ensuring the availability and sustainable absorption of h2o and sanitation for each by 2030.

The Environmental Health Director announced that the Regional Environmental and Sanitation Office had trained astir 20 biology wellness prosecutors to woody swiftly with sanitation offenders successful tribunal to bring sanity successful the communities.

“As a priority, landlords whose properties are without toilets volition beryllium processed for court; likewise schoolhouse proprietors who neglect to supply capable toilets successful their institutions,” she added.
Pursuant to that, Ms Kumedzro said a task unit from her outfit was acceptable to embark connected an workout to inspect schools and present territory sanitation league tables to sanction and shame municipal and territory assemblies which failed to conscionable the acceptable wellness and biology standards.