Uganda, March 23 -- The Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health, Dr Diana Atwine, has asked local leaders to hold people who do not have latrines accountable, for exposing citizens to diseases.

"We must stop playing around. Leaders, get out of your comfort zones, and hold people accountable, those who are exposing people to sickness, actually those people can be charged in courts of law. The law is there," she said.

She said this on Friday during the national commemoration of sanitation week in Kakumiro District.

"How can Kakumiro have a low coverage of latrines and we are here, we call ourselves leaders. How? What has gone wrong? The health educators, we have revised the terms of employment and the targets, and what you need to...