About 88 local communities in the Bono Regional have attained Open Defecation (OD) free status, an indication that nobody defecates openly in the communities.

Mr Humphrey Brandt, the Deputy Bono Regional Environmental Officer who disclosed this to Sompa FM in an interview in Sunyani on Friday said those communities, spread across seven districts, had enacted and were enforcing bye-laws to help sustain the achievement.

He said the 88 communities were among the 180 communities in the 12 politically administrative districts and municipalities the regional environmental health unit and the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) were working to end OD in the region.

To sustain the achievement, Mr Brandt said his outfit had assisted the OD free communities which had enacted and were enforcing sanitation bye-laws in their respective areas.

He explained between 2019 and 2020 the environmental health unit in collaboration with the CWSA constructed more than 4,000 community latrines in the then Brong-Ahafo Region to improve on environmental sanitation.

Mr Brandt said the unit was also collaborating with the various Municipal and District Assemblies to ensure that households toilets were constructed in local communities, and cautioned the general public against indiscriminate dumping of refuse to forestall the outbreak of communicable diseases.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/98.9FM/K.Peprah