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Waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana, in collaboration with the municipal and district assemblies in the Eastern Region, embarked on a vector control programme to get rid of diseases in the region.
The diseases are cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, diarrhoea, malaria among others.
The venture is also to ensure good sanitation in the areas disinfested.
The exercise, which is ongoing across the 33 (MDAs) in the region, involves the spraying of toilet facilities, refuse dumps, waste collection points at markets and elsewhere, drainage systems, selected residences and landfill sites among others.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Koforidua last Monday, the Regional Coordinator for Eastern South of the company, Faustina Shardey, said the spraying exercise in the various municipalities and districts was to prevent the possible outbreak of communicable diseases in the areas.
She stated that it was also in line with sustaining the campaign in cleanliness and proper disposal of solid, liquid and material waste by the people in the region.
Mrs Shardey indicated that apart from the spraying, her outfit had also educated residents of the areas not to openly defecate or dump waste indiscriminately.
"Zoomlion will continue to disinfest the environment to control pests and other undesirable insects at container sites, toilets and official premises such as CHPS compounds, municipal and district assemblies to help control the insect population,” she stated.
Mrs Shardey further indicated that it had also become necessary that the inhabitants of such areas be advised to keep their environment clean so that they would be free from such diseases and sicknesses in the future.
The Eastern Regional Vector Control Officer of Zoomlion, Maxwell Agbose, after spraying various areas, urged the people to ensure good sanitation practices, as well as a sound environment.
He stated that the programme would be continued in all the municipalities and districts in the region to help control the outbreak of diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, malaria, typhoid fever and dysentery.
The Eastern Regional Environmental Health Officer, Prince Kissi, said the assemblies had a contract with Zoomlion concerning the control of mosquitoes and other undesirable insects and vectors.
He, however, stressed the need for intensive public education for people to ensure a sound environment and proper personal hygiene, as well as the avoidance of stagnant water, which serves as a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
Mr Kissi said most diseases were sanitation-related and that Zoomlion would combine spraying with public education.
He said the municipal assembly was seriously enforcing its bye-laws on sanitation to control the outbreak of diseases.
