By Mildred Siabi-Mensah
Takoradi, May 30, GNA – Mr. Daniel Lamptey, the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Environmental Health Officer, has advised residents to stop perforating their septic pipes and directing their effluence into drains and gutters.
He said, with the onset of the rains, such ill environmental practices coupled with unsanitary conditions could result in a surge in cholera cases.
Mr. Lamptey also called on residents to avoid openly defecating, particularly into drains.
“I also want to urge public toilet operators to maintain cleaner facilities to help avoid transmission of infectious conditions”, Mr. Lamptey told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on the Assembly’s preparedness with the onset of the rains.
He added that sanitation was a shared responsibility and entreated communities to live up to their civic roles of maintaining cleaner societies which drive productivity.
The Assembly, he noted, had also begun desilting exercises across the metropolis to ensure that no flooding associated with waterborne diseases occurred.
He urged households with gutters at their frontage to take up the personal responsibility of desilting them so that water could flow properly…let all come together to clean, do away with diseases and increase productivity.
GNA
Edited By Justina Paaga/Benjamin Mensah