ZOOMLION SUPPORTS MOSQUITO SPRAYING EXERCISE

Story: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Takoradi
Zoomlion, a private waste management company in the country has presented 340 mosquito spraying machines to its field workers in all the 17-district in the Western Region.
The machines formed part of the 500 pieces allocated to the region to ensure the eradication of mosquito and to enhance the operations of National Mosquito Control Programme.
The move was reechoing the need to ensure that cases of malaria in hospitals in the region and the country as a whole was reduced to ensure healthy workforce and increase in productivity.
The officials also educate the people on the need to change their attitudes on indiscriminate dumping of solid waste into drains.
Speaking the ceremony, the Minister of health, Dr Sepa Yankey, commend the company and was hopeful that the country could eliminate malaria through attitudinal change.
He said every year, a lot of fund was committed to malaria control programmes and treatment as well as decrease in productivity as a result of its effects on the people.
Dr Yankey said everybody was aware of the effects of dirty environment, therefore it was very important to work towards elimination.
“At the moment what we need is team work to clean the environment and to ensure that wastes are deposit at the designated places,” he said.
The Western Regional Minister, Mr Paul Evans Addo, said the reason why a little had been achieved after vigorous campaign was due to the lack of the will power for people to change their ways.
He said the presentation of the machines and the campaign had provided another opportunity to change for the better.
The regional minister gave the assurance that, his office could collaborate with the ministry of health and Zoomlion to ensure the people benefited and incidents of malaria was reduced and eventually completely eliminated.
“But I must say that, no amount of mosquito spraying will give us the outcomes we expect if we are not repaired to change our attitude towards the way we treat our environment,” he said.
Mr Addo urged the assemblies to ensure that they became active part of the process to ensure a healthy country to ensure increase in productivity.