Experts have warned that Nigeria’s health challenges were being aggravated by open defecation unless stringent measures were put in place to check this and other unhygienic and unhealthy practices.
Specifically, it was revealed that Nigeria, with over 47 million people still practising open defecation instead of using toilets, was today worse off than countries like Ethiopia and Indonesia, where over 27 million and 32 million people, respectively, defecate openly still, according to latest survey.
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 could not 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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