Dagupan conducts studies on sanitation facilities
THE Dagupan government is now undertaking baseline studies on the sanitation facilities inside poor households in the city.
Dr. Leonard Carbonell, city health officer, said the study, which is part of the Sustainable Sanitation in East Asia program of the World Bank, is intended to eventually provide poor households in the city with basic sanitation facilities.
The studies, conducted with help from a technical management group headed by Dr. Jaime Galvez Tan, former health secretary, will determine the problems of the city regarding sanitation.
“We need their technical expertise to identify the sanitation concern and to identify the practical solutions that we can use in Dagupan City,” Carbonell said.
Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Health and the World Bank Water Sanitation Program earlier this year for the project, which is being funded by the Swedish International Development Agency
“It will be a three-year program and at present, we are in the process of establishing the baseline studies regarding sanitation facilities of households,” Carbonell said.
Ten pilot barangays have already been identified for the project.
The target completion of the baseline studies is December this year. —CSR
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