Rann Reuy
The Phnom Penh Post
Fewer people in Cambodia have access to adequate sanitation facilities than in any other Southeast Asian country, according to a new report from the Ministry of Rural Development.
Only 29 percent of Cambodians had access to sanitation facilities as of 2008, said the report released on Monday, which draws on figures from the World Health Organisation and the UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.
By comparison, 96 percent of people in Thailand, 75 percent in Vietnam and 53 percent in Laos had access to such facilities, according to the JMP 2010 report, which was released in March.
Furthermore, 67 percent of Cambodians living in urban areas had access to sanitation facilities in 2008, compared with only 18 percent of people in rural areas.
Chea Samnang, director of the Rural Development Ministry’s Department of Rural Heath, said on Monday that the number of toilets in the Kingdom’s rural areas was increasing at about 2 percent annually.
“We see it is increasing, but it is so slow,” he said.
He said he did not believe that the lack of progress in rural areas could be attributed to poverty levels, arguing that many people who did not own a toilet, which would cost about US$20-30, owned other “modern electrical items” such as motorbikes or telephones.
They Chanto, hygiene promotion officer at the ministry’s Rural Hygiene Education Office, said a substantial number of Cambodians defecate in the open, meaning that about “3,000 fresh stools were scattered into the environment each day”.
12 comments:
it's time for cambodia to wake up and smell the coffee. sanitation, housing rights, etc for khmer people and citizens are part of healthcare, you know! can't just ignore society's demand for better sanitation, etc, you know!
ស្លឹកកន្ត្រាំងខេត្រ មានសរះសំខានដូចក្រដាស់អានាម័យ អីចឹង ។
i know bicycle is good for the environment, but let's get with the program, ok! cambodia can use better sanitation for the people in the country, you know!
sanitation also means clean water for usage, better toilets and public restroom system like they have in the western countries, hygienic in food preparation, household, personal hygene, etc, etc; all should be educated and ecouraged at all time, ok!
Hanoi killed Moslems and took Champa.
Hanoi killed Khmers Krom and has controlled.
That is Viet’s nature as thieves and crocodiles.
That is Viet’s nature as thieves and crocodiles.
Down Vietnamese expansionism!
Vietnam will be wiped out by hurricane!
by Volcano!
by earthquake!
by tsunami!
and by….!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
All Moslems wake up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
All Moslems wake up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!!
All Moslems wake up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!!
All Moslems wake up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out by hurricane! by Volcano!
by earthquake! by tsunami waves ! and by….
LONG LIVE CHAMPA !
LONG LIVE KHMER EMPIRE !
LONG LIVE CHAMPA!
LONG LIVE KHMER EMPIRE!
12:53! can you just look at Thaior Saigapor they are in Asean too! Nedd not go far like Japan or South Korea!!!!!
Ah kwackis babarian amount Asean!
Great job Scambodia!
More corruption
More oppression
More trash
also, change in old mentality helps too! have some paradigm or thinking shift for a better cambodia, ok!
Cambodia is a dirty poor country, what can we expect? People pee and shit on the street
Khmer is poor, they sell their children to be whore
Khmers don't take shit seriously.
They eat, sleep and shit at the same place.
Why khmer leaders so cheap and dump that never able to manage such sanitation by themselves? It's reduculous that they have to ask foreigners for help to create more toilets for their own people?
So cheap ah kumrouk Hun.
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