'Diabetes' and Kidney Disease: Which One to Choose?

(Baonghean.vn)- Public opinion has repeatedly expressed extreme displeasure at the bad habits of Vietnamese people such as not lining up, smoking in public places, not wearing helmets, and now "diabetes".

Illustration photo.

More than 17 years ago, the regulation requiring the wearing of helmets when riding motorbikes was introduced, and many people were afraid that it would be difficult to implement. Now, wearing helmets has become a habit for the majority of people. Because they themselves realize that doing so is for their own safety. Urinating in the right place has also become a reality?

It is a shame that the act of “innocently urinating in the street” has to be included in the Law. What do other countries think about Vietnamese people? When seeing urinating in the street, some people turn away, others consider it normal, foreign tourists feel strange and bored.

From February 1, 2017, according to Article 20, Decree 155/ND-CP, which regulates administrative sanctions for violations in the field of environmental protection, clearly states that a fine of 1-3 million VND will be imposed for acts of urinating or defecating in the wrong place in apartment buildings, commercial areas, service areas or public places.

Public toilets in many places are often closed. Illustration photo

However, currently there is a regulation prohibiting public urination, but there are not enough public toilets to meet the basic needs of passersby. It is ironic that if you “hold your urine” regularly, it is not good for your health, causing many diseases, but if you “have diabetes”, it is considered bad behavior and you will be fined. So what should city residents or tourists do when there are almost no public toilets on all roads and crowded areas? So how can the Law be implemented? We try to give some suggestions as follows:

The first way is to still be “a painful punishment for life”. The heavy fine for urinating in public in Singapore is up to 1,000 SGD (about 16 million VND), repeat offenders will be fined 2,000-5,000 SGD and have to do many hours of community service. In Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), if you violate the law, you will be fined 5,000 RM (more than 25 million VND), and even repeated offenders can be sentenced to prison.

In some countries such as the US, Germany, India, etc., they have used super waterproof paint that can splash urine back at the perpetrator, and used “anti-peeing tankers”. Along with that, there must be a specialized force to strictly and correctly punish. In our country, up to now, in reality, it is still unclear which entity is responsible for enforcing the punishment for the above-mentioned acts.

The second way is to solve urgent needs for people. Should we encourage individuals to open affordable public sanitation services, ensuring hygiene for their own restaurant walls, and when each person has an “urgent” need, they have an address to solve it immediately. It is really easy, convenient, clean, civilized and polite. In the long term, the implementation of planning needs to design and build many public toilets in reasonable locations.

In addition to the above forms, it is also indispensable to educate citizens from preschool to high school, and to strongly propagate in agencies, units, and enterprises. Adding the penalty of "forcing violators to perform community service for a limited period of time to restore the original environmental condition" is a good way to limit recidivism.

If each citizen, each agency and unit takes specific and serious actions, it will certainly minimize the "public urination" problem, and restore cleanliness and civilization to the streets./.

Mr. Hoa