The Volta Region Vector Control team of Zoomlion Ghana Limited has intensified its activities with a massive spraying exercise to disinfest communities of insects, as part of its programme line up for the Control Unit to ensure that all the 25 districts and municipalities in the region are kept clean.
The Vector Control initiative, which was dubbed “Municipal and District Disinfestations”, was to rid the municipalities and districts of insects, particularly reptiles, rodents and mosquitoes, which are responsible for diseases in communities in the region, and called on the public to support Zoomlion.
Addressing the media after one of such exercises at Dzodze in the Ketu-North District, the Head of Environmental Sanitation of Zoomlion in the region, Mr. Richard Attipoe, explained that the exercise was being taken more seriously by his outfit, because it was geared towards improving the health of citizens in the region, stressing that the waste management expert wished to ensure a hundred percent success, since spraying teams had been positioned in all the districts and municipalities.
Mr. Attipoe said it was important for the people to adhere to healthy environmental practices that would help ensure that their surroundings were kept neat at all times, by weeding and emptying containers filled with water, in order to destroy the breeding grounds of insects, including mosquitoes.
The Ketu-North District Environmental Health Officer, Mr. Agortse, said the Assembly was collaborating effectively with Zoomlion to ensure the success of the disinfection exercise. He further noted that the exercise had helped in promoting good health among the people in the area, and that his outfit had also intensified public education on the need for the people to adhere to sound environmental practices.