Residents urged to join in the fight against poor sanitation

Record has it that over 70 percent of OPD cases recorded at the various health facilities in the Upper East Region are sanitation related diseases with malaria being the number ailment reported each day.  

The rest include diarrheoa and cholera which  had claimed the death of some residents in the region. 

The Regional Manager of Zoomlion Ghana, John Sackey, who made this known said the health sector of the country spent heavily in fighting sanitation. 

Moreover, government utilizes chunk of its resources to provide medication for malaria and other related diseases.

 Mr Sackey disclosed this to Radio Ghana at the end of today’s National Sanitation Day exercise held in Bolgatanga. 

He said since sanitation was a shared responsibility, it was incumbent on all to complement the effort of government by practicing sound environmental cleanliness.   

Mr Sackey also called for attitudinal change in the fight against sanitation since Zoomlion cannot shoulder the responsibility alone. 

The exercise began at the premises of the Regional Office of the Ghana Fire Service and ended at the Metro Mass Transport, MMT, yard. 

Present were dignitaries including the MP for Bolgatanga Central, Opam Brown Akolbire and the MCE for Bolgatanga Municipal, Edward Ayagle. 

Personnel from the various security agencies including staff of Zoomlion Ghana and the MMT were there to lend their support.

 They desilted some chocked gutters and cleared other waste materials in identified areas. In a brief message after the exercise, the MP and the MCE said was high time people embrace the national exercise considering the poor sanitation in the country.

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