By Richard Attenkah
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has donated fish processing equipment to the Tema-Bankuman Fishmongers Association at Bankuman, a suburb of Tema Manhean, to help the local fishmongers in their fishing activities.
The items, which include 100 pieces of wire net, worth GH¢20,000, were given to 170 members of the organised fishmongers. The Assembly also donated assorted health equipment to the Tema Polyclinic, Tema General Hospital, and the Tema Manhean Community Clinic.
The items, which include 50 pairs of hand gloves, 10 pieces of nose masks, 60 buckets, 15 veronica buckets, 19 special cholera beds, 20 gallons of bleach, 20 gallons of Izal, and 60 vomiting bowls are to be distributed among the three health institutions.
The donations were made at separate functions.
Presenting the items to the Tema-Bankuman Fishmongers Association, Isaac Ashai Odamtten, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, commended the people in the community for their peaceful relations to one another, and urged them to continue, since unity brings about development.
The Tema MCE noted that even though the items were not enough, it is the beginning of bigger things to come, and assured them that there were more things in the pipeline.
Isaac Odamtten touched on the issue of the outbreak of cholera in the country, and urged the people to take the practice of good sanitation and frequent washing of their hands seriously, to make them live in a cholera-free environment.
Torgbui Datsomor II, who received the items on behalf of the fishmongers, thanked the MCE and his entourage for their kind gesture and appealed to the fish mongers to show their appreciation to the Assembly.
Dr. Sally Quartey, who received the items on behalf of the three health institutions, also thanked the MCE and his entourage for the items, saying, it was a step to the right direction.
She disclosed that the cholera cases, which rose from one in July to 74 six weeks ago, has now reduced to 32, an indication of the fact that the numbers were going down.
Isaac Odamtten and his entourage also toured other areas in the metropolis to inspect ongoing building projects, including a two-storey classroom block, which is part of the Industrial Basic School Project (IBSP), at the Tema Community Two (2) Mexico School.
He said the project is expected to contain 12 classroom blocks, a staff common room, an ICT lab, a well-furnished library, washroom and a CHIPS Compound to provide the student and teachers with their health needs.
He also mentioned the greening of the school park, as well as the construction of a dressing room, and volley ball and basketball courts as some of the projects that the TMA, under his jurisdiction, was putting up to enhance sporting activities in the school.