Ghana: Let's Have Commercial Toilets At All Fuel Stations to Curb Open Defecation

28 October 2011

Ghanaian engineer and technologist, Dr. Albert M. Wright, who introduced the Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit (KVIP), has prescribed the mandatory construction of toilets at the country's many fuel stations, to help curb the high incidence of open defecation in the country.

He said such a move would in the short term make improved sanitation facilities available, not only to motorists, but many more Ghanaians who do not have access and thus make them refrain from defecating in open spaces.

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