The Department of Health (DoH) on Monday lamented that there are more households in the Philippines that own cell phones than basic toilet facilities. Also, according to the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), seven million Filipinos still practice open defecation, mostly in rural areas. Duque said giving away toilets will not solve the problem of open defecation. That should also be the case for our own toilets,” he added. Hello, Healthy!” to convince household heads to build their own sanitary toilets.

Source: Manila Times November 27, 2017 16:07 UTC