By Spy Uganda
The Commissioner for Health and Sanitation Julian Kyomuhangi has asked residents of Bunyangabu District to embrace the construction of Eco-San toilets to improve their health and sanitation.
Kyomuhangi said this on Wednesday, during her visit in Bunyangabu District, where she visited residents of Gatyanga Cell in Rwimi Town council, who had constructed Eco-San toilets as a way of improving health and sanitation in their community.
She commended their efforts of keeping healthy and maintaining good sanitation, and asked those who have collapsing pit latrines to construct new toilets to avoid diseases that are caused by poor sanitation.
Pamela Kabasinguzi, the team coordinator FINISH (Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health), said that “This project which is funded by CARITAS and AMREF, has been helping communities of Bunyangabu to access affordable loans through Hofokam that can help the locals to construct affordable toilets which are reusable.”
She added that these Eco-San toilets can be maintained with dry ash and dry banana leaves to keep away the flies.
She added that the wastes in these toilets can be processed into manure for increased production.
Kabasinguzi thus called upon locals in other sub-counties that are still lagging behind in latrine construction to prioritize the construction of pit latrines so as to minimise the spread of diseases.
