Lang Son reviews WB-funded rural sanitation, water supply project

(LSO) – Lang Son’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) hosted a conference on June 25 to implement the World Bank-funded Result-based Scaling Up Rural Sanitation and Water Supply Programme project this year.

Lang Son is among 21 provinces nationwide benefiting from the project between 2016 – 2020.

The project, launched in Lang Son in 2017, includes three components – rural water supply, rural sanitation and hygiene, and capacity building, communication, supervision, and evaluation.

Over the last three years, 12 communes in the province have achieved the “Commune-wide Sanitation” (CWS) status and two communes have maintained sustainable the CWS.

Delegates to the conference.

About 650 hygiene latrines have been newly built for poor, near-poor households and policy beneficiaries while 25 commune-based medical stations have received a new water supply and sanitation facility.

By the end of 2019, nearly 66 percent of rural households in the province have had hygiene latrines; 85 percent of the local medical stations have had water supply facilities and hygiene latrines; and 95 percent of rural people have gained access to clean water.

During the conference, the delegates discussed and exchanged experience and solutions in managing and implementing the rural sanitation and hygiene component in communes and districts.

A representative from the provincial Department of Health presents gifts to communes meeting the “Commune-wide Sanitation” (CWS) status in 2019.

They agreed to aim for eight more communes to implement the CWS, including Mong An, Tan Van (Binh Gia district); Hoa Lac, Nhat Tien (Huu Lung district); De Tham, Dai Dong (Trang Dinh district); Chien Thang (Bac Son district); and Tan Thanh (Van Lang district).

The provine sets to have all rural people in these communes to be campaigned and use improved latrines as well as be educated on how to properly practice personal hygiene and wash hands with soap. About 90 percent of health workers at communal and village medical stations will receive training.

The provincial Department of Health took the occasion to present gifts to communes meeting the CWS status last year./.