The public toilets to be built in Cebu’s 37 towns will cost the province P600,000 each, the Capitol’s Provincial Engineering Office said over the weekend.
During last Saturday’s inauguration of the road network at a Gawad Kalinga (GK) site in Minglanilla town, Provincial Engr. Eulogio Pelayre said the costs include the tiles and a separate restroom for persons with disabilities (PWDs).
The PWD toilet has railings and safety handles.
“A school building is a school building. The school building don’t have tiles… The interiors of the toilet have tiles,” he said.
The first public toilet was inaugurated in Dumanjug town, western Cebu.
The public toilet located in the park has three cubicles each for male and female users.
A total of 37 toilets will eventually be built in 37 Cebu towns at P22 million. These will be placed in the poblacions or town centers.
The project was awarded to contractors B.L. Pangan Construction for the northern towns and Maningo Construction for the southern towns.
About 20 towns in the south and 17 in the north will avail of the project.
During the recent Suroy-Suroy sa Sugbo Midwest edition, Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale said the tourism council planned to set up more toilets along the province’s highways.
Municipal halls and plazas where the Suroy-Suroy sa Sugbo tourists stop over have only two to three toilet cubicles, thus they stand in long lines to use the toilets.
Other restrooms don’t have soap or hand sanitizers that the tourists could use.
Magpale said she suggested to Garcia to improve the toilets in the barangay halls of each town since most barangay halls are located along the highways. Correspondent Carmel Loise Matus