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SunStar December 10, 2020 TODAY, I weigh in on a most disgusting topic, a problem that stinks literally and metaphorically to high heavens for a definitive solution.
According to 2008 UN figures, roughly 19 million Filipinos defecate in the open, like unto a water body, behind bushes or into the hole in the ground of an outhouse. Recently in 2020, however, a news item bemoaned that an estimated 50 million Filipinos, to use a euphemism, do not have access to sanitary toilets.
It’s such a shameful figure to accept that my initial reaction was one of disbelief. But when I did the math, I easily realized that even if the figure errs on the plus side by 50 percent it still leaves 25 million Filipinos defecating in the open. It made me wonder what happened to the Zero Open Defecation Program the Department of Health (DOH) launched in 2010.