In Ghana, the latest statistics published by the World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in 2012 shows that only 15 per cent (3.7 million) Ghanaians have access to clean, safe improved toilets in their homes, 58 per cent of the population share toilets with their neighbours or use public toilets and another 4.6 million Ghanaians defecate in the open daily.

This year’s commemoration of World Toilet Day was under the theme: “Achieving Open Defecation Free Ghana”.

Read more in The Ghana News Agency 20th November 2012