The construction of a urology centre prompts our columnist to peruse the pressing issue of peeing.
Is it just me, or is it hard to have a pee in Bogotá? And is the lack of public toilets part of some neo-liberal plot to force people into shopping centres and boost urology clinics?
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I had to poop at a public toilet in Bogota and there was a fee to enter and then there was no toilet seat. They gave me a small wad of tissue to wipe with. Fortunately I had some of those Charmin wipes that are so bad for the plumbing. At least there was a door on the stall.
You write this as lightly humerous, but in reality, it is part of a larger problem that - to me - truly signifies what others have written does not occur in "civilized countries." The overall issue is a lack of public health concern - that translates into no toilets, no toilet seats, no toilet paper, no soap, no hot water for hand-washing - OK, that's asking a lot. But you get the idea. I complain to every new doctor I go to and I just get the typical, Colombian shoulder-shrug. I had surgery once, here, and in the bathrooms outside the surgical suite was no soap, no toilet paper, no paper towels; I went to the ER at El Bosque and had to provide a rather unpleasant "specimen." No toilet paper, no soap, no paper towels. I find it disgusing, uncivilized and a sign of just how little "the authorities" and "politicians" care.