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

(Baonghean.vn)- Public opinion has repeatedly expressed extreme displeasure at Vietnamese people's bad habits 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 wearing 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 of 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?

What a shame that the act of “innocently urinating in the street” has to be put into 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, regulating administrative sanctions for violations in the field of environmental protection, clearly states that fines of 1-3 million VND will be imposed for acts of urinating or defecating in the wrong place in apartment buildings, commercial and service areas or public places.

Public toilets in many places are often closed. Illustrative photo

However, currently there is a regulation prohibiting public urination, but there are not enough public toilets to serve 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 public toilets are almost absent 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 violations can result in a prison sentence.

In some countries such as the US, Germany, India... they have used super waterproof paint, which can splash urine back at the perpetrator, and used "anti-pee tanker trucks". Along with that, there must be a specialized force to carry out strict and correct punishments. In our country, up to now, in reality, it is still unclear which entity is responsible for enforcing the punishments 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 restrooms 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 do community service for a limited period 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 "public urination", returning cleanliness and civilization to the streets./.

Mr. Hoa