By Erica Apeatua Addo, GNA
Tarkwa (W/R), February 25, GNA – Mr. Alex Damtey, the Municipal Environmental Health Officer for Tarkwa Nsuaem, has urged residents to properly handle waste in their communities to prevent cholera, malaria, and typhoid outbreaks.
He said although there were lots of private collection tricycles and trucks operating within the municipality, most residents refused to patronize them.
Mr. Damtey said for instance in Cyanide community, they had several designated areas for solid waste disposal, yet people still disposed waste into drains, backyards, and unapproved places.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency on some challenges of the department, he said they had already done a lot of sensitization and soon they would enforce the by-laws and that those who would flawed the laws would be prosecuted.
He indicated that last year, they prosecuted many people, and this year they would be doing same to enable them keep their communities safe and further serve as a deterrent.
Mr. Damtey appealed to the various communities to comply with the rules that had been laid out, added that, now they were encouraging householders to have their own latrines to ease pressure on public ones.
He emphasized that their goal was to ensure that people dumped refuse at authorized areas to avoid choked drains.
He stressed that this was the reason why they encouraged community members to do as their part in managing waste within the municipality.
GNA
Edited by Justina Hilda Paaga/George-Ramsey Benamba