Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 1:00 pm
Well, they are certainly good at the marketing bullshit. A buzzword salad stitched together to form meaningless sentences.

Just how do you ensure, " diversity and equality along the entire value chain, regardless of race, gender, or nationality" when you are simply selling a place for people to take a dump?

say what you do, do what you say. No negative press until now. Lets give them a chance? Taking a dump in a nice clean environment has some value to me. Especially when/if I have the shits.

Housekeepers at public hospitals are overwhelmed. With 1 housekeeper for 1 department or an entire hospital, what are the priorities? Plus cleaning a toilet requires supplies, which are also very limited. People to fix toilets are even in shorter supply, and replacing broken toilets are major budget items.

The single staff toilet is cleaned and maintained by the staff. Missus used to do it, but she also hates mess, dirt, and loves working toilets.

If the government provided as much for cleaning and fixing toilets as nice guesthouses, then there wouldn’t be this issue. Of course, many Khmer (and the families taking care of them) couldn’t afford to pay for that level of service.

Maybe it is an education issue. People are used to free. Open defecation, using a guava tree branch to wipe and then through away.

These are just my musings. Please take it with a grain of salt.

ODF status expected for Kep in Aug: official
Long Kimmarita | Publication date 05 July 2023 | 21:48 ICT

Kep is set to be officially declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) in August. It is on course to become the sixth province to attain this status, following a successful evaluation, according to Lon Sayteng, director of the Department of Rural Healthcare at the Ministry of Rural Development.

Thus far, five provinces – Svay Rieng, Prey Veng, Kandal, Kampong Speu and Kampong Chhnang – have been recognised as ODF.

“I hope and believe that through our successful experience, we will push further on this task. We have achieved a good result. With our verification, Kep almost achieved 100 per cent,” said Sayteng.

Sayteng added that the ministry’s Rural Development Strategy and Action Plan 2019-2023 had targeted five provinces for ODF status, but Kandal has already achieved this ahead of schedule.

Yi Kimthan, deputy country director of Plan International Cambodia, confirmed that his organisation, in cooperation with the ministry’s healthcare department, had evaluated Kep province and found it to have achieved 100 per cent compliance.

“The ministry’s main goal is to achieve 100 per cent rural sanitation coverage by 2025, in which each household has a latrine. Having clean toilets and good infrastructure for everyone and proper waste disposal place is what the ministry is paying attention to,” Sayteng underlined.

He emphasised the importance of provinces having solid and liquid waste treatment stations, noting that Kep, Kampot and Kratie already have such facilities in place.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... g-official