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“Today, 4.5 billion people live without safely managed sanitation and 2.1 billion people lack access to safe, readily available water at home.” Right at our doorstep having access to a toilet, which is a human right is now a luxury reserved for a chosen few. So we continue to train people who are adept at creating “shit-bombs” and others who have mastered the art of answering to nature’s call in the open.
What happens to all the untreated faecal material? Well it surely finds its way into polluting our water that we eventually drink as well as use to water crops etc. I am sure we all know this already but let us remind ourselves that we are in a major crisis and need quick workable solutions. Even when people who should know better fail to admit it; Climate Change is messing up water supply and sanitation worldwide but especially in the poorest countries. We are making “the work of climate change” even much easier as we degrade our natural environment by polluting water resources with untreated wastewater. We have created a Public Health crisis by multiplying disease cases, negatively affecting our nutrition and throwing our education and economic activity into chaos.
World Toilet Day is 19th November and the theme is “WHEN NATURE CALLS…”
WHEN NATURE CALLS ……;
REMINDER
My beloved country still struggles and we continue to cry out to our leaders for help as promise after promise go unfulfilled. President Akufo-Addo launched the National Sanitation Campaign on 13th November 2017 with a focus on “one house one toilet” that is if my memory serves me right but like a similar programme in 2012 we continue to wait for action.
The statistics do not lie and still remain the same;
I have been scratching my head all morning and I arrive at the same conclusion each time; FREE SHS has its merits BUT without managing our shit safely, any gains made as a country will be eroded.
I still maintain that until a country learns to manage its “shit” properly, there cannot be any meaningful growth and development simply because any gains made will be eroded by diseases. It is also a fact of life that we need to be able to manage a basic need before we develop adequate skill to tackle other challenges in life.
We should all be in a hurry to solve our sanitation challenge. We have literally run out of time,
#manageshitfirstandfast
AS ALWAYS LAUGH OFTEN, WALK AND PRAY EVERYDAY AND REMEMBER IT’S A PRICELESS GIFT TO KNOW YOUR NUMBERS (blood sugar, blood pressure, blood cholesterol, BMI)
(Health Essentials Ltd/Premier Health Insurance/St Andrews Clinic)
*Dr. Kojo Essel is a medical doctor, holds an MBA and is ISSA certified in exercise therapy, fitness nutrition and corrective exercise.
Thought for the week – “When nature calls, we have to listen and act appropriately by disposing off our faeces in a proper, safe toilet without contaminating our environment.”
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