ZOOMLION SUPPORTS MOSQUITO SPRAYING EXERCISE IN WR (SPREAD)

Zoomlion, a private waste management company in the country, has presented 340 mosquito spraying machines to its field workers in all the 17 districts of the Western Region.
The machines formed part of the 500 pieces allocated to the region to ensure eradication of mosquito and to enhance operations of the National Mosquito Control Programme.
The move was re-echoing the need to ensure that cases of malaria in hospitals in the region and the country as a whole were reduced to ensure a healthy workforce to increase productivity.
The officials also educate the people on the need to change their attitudes with regard to the indiscriminate dumping of solid waste into drains.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Minister of Health, Dr George Sepa-Adjah Yankey, commended the company and expressed the hope 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 a dirty environment, therefore, it was very important to work towards its elimination.
“At the moment, what we need is teamwork to clean the environment and to ensure that waste is deposited at the designated places,” he said.
The Western Regional Minister, Mr Paul Evans Addo, said the reason why very little had been achieved after vigorous campaign was due to a lack of will power of the 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 that people benefited,and malaria reduced.
“But I must say that no amount of mosquito spraying will give us the outcome we expect if we are not prepared to change our attitude towards the way we treat our environment,” he said.
Mr Addo urged the assemblies to ensure that they became active in the process to ensure a healthy country to ensure increase in productivity.