District lunches programme to avoid outbreak of disease

District lunches programme to avoid outbreak of disease

February 10, 2010
Breman Asikuma (C/R), Feb 10, GNA - The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly has lunched a programme to encourage people to adopt personal hygiene to avoid outbreak of diseases in the area.

The programme is being organised by the District Assembly in collaboration with the United Nation International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) support programme on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Mrs Georgina Nkrumah Aboah, District Chief Executive for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa who lunched the programme at Breman Asikuma, expressed regret about the alarming rate at which the environment was being destroyed.

She said the ancestors used taboos and other traditional methods to preserve the environment and expressed regret that currently people dump refuse and human waste indiscriminately.

Mrs Aboah called for attitudinal and behavioural change and that education and campaign to ensure environmental cleanliness was being pursued by the AOB District Assembly.

She said with the support of the Central Region Branch of Community Water and Sanitation Agency, Breman Amanfopong has been selected as a model of the community-led Total Sanitation Programme in the region.

She appealed to the chiefs and opinion leaders in the district to support the assembly to promote sanitation through education and effective implementation of sanitation bye-laws in their communities.

GNA