The idea that every country thrives off a well-implemented and standard healthcare sector is a widely accepted phenomenon, as it effectively ensures the safeguarding and satisfactory handling of people with health complications. Without doubt, Nigeria’s health sector is one that has witnessed immense underdevelopment overtime and thus, there has been a paramount need for the facilitation of a functioning healthcare system. As a result of this underdevelopment in the health sector, numerous organizations have urged for a more reliable and efficient healthcare sector to enhance its services in the country.
According to reports, millions of Nigerians still lack basic access to sanitation facilities. Some months ago, the United Nations International Children’s Fund, in collaboration with the World Health Organization organized a programme titled “Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa 2000 to 2020: Five Years into the SDGs” published a survey in 2020, where it was indicated that Nigeria was leading the remaining African countries on open defecation and non-availability of basic hygiene services.
Nigeria among WCAR rated countries with most open defecation cases.
This released result indicated that over 160 million Nigerians were victims of inefficient sanitation services between 2015 and 2020. This report further noted that only 43 percent of the Nigerian population had access to safe sanitation services. Also, only 22 percent of Nigerians had access to safe drinking water. Nigeria also recorded the highest percentage with lack of basic access to personal hygiene. In indicating the how deep this issue has ravaged the African continent, the report stated that Nigeria, Ethiopia, Niger, Madagascar and Congo topped the chart of countries with most cases of open defecation.
Globally, WCAR accounted for 14 percent of open defecation, with eight countries having more than 5 million people and 20 percent of the African population in 12 of its 24 countries indulging in the act. India ranked first in the list of countries with cases of open defecation, with Nigeria, a close second, having an approximation of 47 million Nigerians not having any access to basic toilet facilities, leading to an increased indulgence in the practice of open defecation.
This menace puts poor communities at public health risks.
As a result of the underdevelopment and badly managed sanitation system in the global scene, the worldwide sanitation issues have immensely affected approximately three to six billion people worldwide. Due to this issue, the Nigerian government is working hard to ensure that through the impending World Toilet Summit, which is scheduled to hold in the country’s capital, Abuja, it would assist the global scene in making a difference, as well as prompting countries around the world to work together to eradicate this health menace.
The poorest communities are intensely put at huge consequential risks of public health, environmental and economic problems, as a result of this healthcare deficiency. The persistence of this sanitation crisis means that millions of individuals are still being devastatingly affected. In a bid to curb this healthcare problem that has ravaged the globe and improve sanitation across the country, the Nigerian government established a campaign aimed at salvaging the issues around open defecation by 2025.
World Toilet Summit innovation to help mobilize for needed support.
Stakeholders, whist speaking ahead of the Word Toilet Summit, have however noted that this innovation will play a poignant role in creating avenues for more resources, expertise and innovations that will help in ending the menace of open defecation. This summit, which is to be hosted in Nigeria is posed to enhance the mobilization of high-level support from politics and private sector stakeholders around the world, in a bid to achieve the set theme and goals for this year.
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Nigeria seriously need this summit because the rate at which people use open defecation is seriously alarming and cause for urgent concern.Nigeria should have grown beyond this.
It baffles me to hear the rate at which Nigerians still practice open defecation in this development era. I hope this summit would aid the global scene in making a difference to this devastating healthcare menace.
Our toilet system in Nigeria is very poor and this is why a lot of people contact toilet disease. I hope this toilet summit will help to project a new and compulsorily way we can take care of our toilets.
The rate of open defecations in our country is too much our health sector is poor due to our undeveloped country. With this submit I hope it help us and eradicate open defecation and so on
After hosting the summit we need to make use of the opportunities and provide good poblic toilets and we’ll costrycted toilets for house in order for people to Maintain good hygiene which is important.
Nigeria to host World Toilet Summit when the defecations in our country is too much.
There is the need for consistent and continuous education on the danger of open defecation. Our government should make provision for facilities that curb open defecation and promote hygiene.
As a result of the underdevelopment and badly managed sanitation system in the global scene, the worldwide sanitation issues have immensely affected approximately three to six billion people worldwide
It’s generally agreed that every nation benefits from having a strong healthcare system in place, as this guarantees that those with medical issues will be protected and cared for to their satisfaction.
Without a shadow of a question, Nigeria’s health sector is one that has seen enormous underdevelopment over the course of time, and as a result, there has been a pressing requirement for the establishment of a healthcare system that is operational.
Nigeria’s health sector is one that has witnessed immense underdevelopment overtime and thus, there has been a paramount need for the facilitation of a functioning healthcare system.
As a consequence of the underdevelopment that has occurred in the health sector, a great number of organizations have advocated for the establishment of a healthcare system that is more trustworthy and effective in order to improve the quality of services offered throughout the nation.
It’s a wonderful thing that this happened since it gave them a location to keep track of their accomplishments up to this point, share information, and consult with one another about issues that affect women and children.
The greatest rate of people who don’t have access to basic sanitation facilities was found in Nigeria. Indicating the extent to which this problem has devastated Africa, it is terrible to say that
About three to six billion people throughout the world have been adversely affected as a direct result of the worldwide sanitation problems that have arisen as a direct result of the underdevelopment and poorly maintained sanitation system in the global scene.
Inadequate healthcare creates a double whammy for low-income neighborhoods: poor people face a greater risk of public health, ecological, and economic disasters. Millions of people are still being severely impacted by this sanitation catastrophe since it has not been resolved.
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The whole problem stems from the insensitivity of our government to health related matters. If proper education where given to the masses about the danger of open defecation and enforcement against indiscipline about such act where enacted and government make available facilities that will reduce such activities, I don’t think there will such thing as open defecation again in Nigeria.
A great number of groups have called for the nation’s healthcare system to become more trustworthy and effective so that it can provide better services.
The Nigerian government has launched a drive to solve the problems associated with open defecation by the year 2025, in an effort to reduce this worldwide health crisis and improve sanitation across the country.
Over time, Nigeria’s health sector has been severely underdeveloped, making it all the more important to put in place a reliable healthcare infrastructure.
I hope this toilet summit will help to project a new and compulsorily way we can take care of our toilets. Innovations that will help in ending the menace of open defecation should also be provided.