2024 World Toilet Day: UNICEF Re-echoes Call For Improved Sanitation, Hygiene To Reduce Illnesses
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has stressed that adequate and safe sanitation, as well as proper hand hygiene practices help to prevent illnesses that impact families.On the occasion of 2024 World Toilet Day, the world body declared that there has been limited progress over the last two years in the fight against open defecation in Nigeria, as available statistics show that Nigerians’ access to water, sanitation, hygiene services and the practice of open defecation has remained steady at twenty-three per cent.UNICEF Desk Officer in Anambra Broadcasting Service, Mrs. Franca Madike, described the practice of open defecation as an affront on dignity of man; with risks to children’s nutrition and communities’ health.The 2024 World Toilet Day had as its theme, “Toilets – a place for peace” and aimed at promoting worldwide public campaign that encourages actions to tackle the global sanitation crisis.