The Tema Metropolitan Environmental
Health Department is poised to intensify health inspection in the Tema region.
It is also gearing up to increase awareness on sanitation practices to
forestall the outbreak of communicable diseases. Apart from these, the
Department is also focusing on the registration and screening of food vendors,
whiles advocating for the supply of noise measuring instruments. The Head of
the Tema Metropolitan Environmental Health Department, Edward Shardey, said
this in an interview with Obonu News in Tema. Hagar Sey has the rest of the
story.
The Department, over the years has been
collaborating with private sector service providers, government agencies and
the security services, to ensure sanity in the Metropolis. Mr. Shardey noted
that for the Metropolis to achieve the needed environmental standard there is
the need to intensify monitoring and supervision. He said the Assembly will
enforce the District Assembly bye-laws as well as intensify investigations and
conflict management. According to him, the Metropolis recorded 965 cholera
cases last year; saying out of the number, 561 were males, which is the highest
ever recorded in the metropolis. He added that the Department embarked on
several awareness programmes last year, to educate residents on cholera
prevention and hygiene. He mentioned inadequate offices, lack of vehicle for
special duties, arrest of stray animals, open defecation and lack of equipment
to measure noise pollution among others as major challenge limiting the work of
the Department. Mr. Shardy added that cholera outbreak; high infected organs of
animal in meat inspection and refuse accumulation in the markets were also a
challenge for the Department. He charged the Assembly to put in place measures
to address the challenges confronting the Depart
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