Focus efforts on tackling poor sanitation

District Assemblies have been charged to focus efforts and resources on tackling poor sanitation in the communities to prevent Cholera and other diseases.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Health Director, Dr. Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, said they need to act decisively to end the practice of open defecation, bad waste management and laxity in the enforcement of environmental sanitation bye-laws.

Dr. Yeboah-Awudzi was speaking at a workshop on Cholera in Kumasi.

So far, there have been 11 confirmed cholera cases in the Metropolis.

Dr.Yeboah-Awudzi said issues about sanitation should be taken seriously. Participants were educated on how to avoid getting Cholera, and what to do when infected.

He said it is disheartening that Cholera, which was eradicated about 150 years, continues to remain a major public health problem, in Ghana and other developing countries.

GNA