BAGUIO CITY: The City Health Services Office (CHSO) believes that the city government has achieved its target of 100 percent zero open defecation (ZOD) compliant after all of the Summer Capital’s 128 barangay (villages) earned ZOD status under the Department of Health (DoH) program that aims to scale up sanitation in communities. 

However, the 100-percent citywide (ZOD) status will only become official after verification and declaration by the DoH. As per the DoH guidelines, ZOD or Grade 1 (G1) status is achieved when the “households have stopped practicing open defecation and are using sanitary toilet facilities and no human feces are openly visible or exposed to the environment.”

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