Experts in the health sector have warned that unless stringent measures are adopted to check open defecation, Nigeria’s health challenges will be aggravated.
This was one of the critical issues thrown up at a two-day training workshop on ‘Communication for Behaviour Change in Essential Family Practices’ for various media houses, programme managers, state and national information officers, organised by the Delta State Ministry of Information in collaboration with UNICEF.
According to UNICEF’s experts, Dr Hilary Ozoh and Martha Hokonya, media role in arousing both the citizens and government to issues of Water Sanitation Hygiene cannot be overstressed considering the huge effects of open defecation on Nigerians and the attainment of United Nations’ deadline of open-defecation-free world in 2030.
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