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PUBLISHED ON April 5, 2008 AT 11:55 AM

Airing on April 7, 2008, Monday late night after Saksi

In the most recent sanitation survey of the Department of Health, a huge chunk of our population still lacks a very important facility in their homes: the comfort room!

But what’s more surprising is this: majority of residents even in developed urban areas still do not have proper toilets.

New York Festivals Gold and Silver Medalist Sandra Aguinaldo faces this pressing sanitation issue in her I-Witness documentary this Monday.

50% of Rizal province’s more than one million residents do not have toilets. Sandra goes to Jalajala, Rizal and discovers that until now, locals either go to the river to answer the call of nature, or use the old system of digging their own “dump” site.

Meanwhile, children in Caloocan city’s urban poor areas have grown accustomed to defecating on the streets and in canals. Residents are too poor to finance the building of a public restroom, while the local government argues there is no point in such a project, as they are illegal settlers whose houses will soon be demolished.

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fernan angeles Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 8:27 am
the department of health may have based their findings re. 50 percent of rizal’s more than one million residents still don’t have comfort rooms, from a study conducted 30 years 20 years ago. doh should update it.
i should know, i have been going around rizal’s depressed area for the last 18 years.
randy barnuevo Says:
April 12th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
“But what’s more surprising is this: majority of residents even in developed urban areas still do not have proper toilets.”
If we use the real definition of “proper toilet” I think there are more or less 75% residents not only in rizal but all over the country DO NOT have toilet.
Is your “source” reliable? I think DoH should update their figures! They are putting you inside their “toilet”.
Rodelio C. Francisco Says:
August 5th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
we believe that the data supplied by DOH goes back from time immemorial.

“Sandra goes to Jalajala, Rizal and discovers that until now, locals either go to the river to answer the call of nature, or use the old system of digging their own “dump” site.”

ms. Aguinaldo’s expose did not mention the barangay/s she visited. anyway, we take her report positively and the local government has started conducting its survey of households in the 11 barangays. the results shall be incorporated in the FY2009 local development plan.

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