NADMO intensifies education on cholera, yellow fever in Agona East
As part of measures to prevent the outbreak of cholera and yellow fever in the Agona East District in the Central Region, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has intensified education about these diseases among schoolchildren.
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In all, nine communities were visited where officials of NADMO and the Ghana Health Service educated the schoolchildren on how to prevent the outbreak of cholera with the onset of the rains as well as to prevent yellow fever.
The beneficiary schools were Namanwora SDA, Amanful No.2 AEDA (Agona East District Assembly) School, Fanti Bawjiase AEDA School, Kenyanko AEDA School and Asarekwaa AEDA basic school, among others.
The schoolchildren were also educated on the proper hand-washing procedure.
Health Officer
A health Promotion Officer at the Agona East District Directorate of the Ghana Health Service, Miss Martha Opoku, said most diseases, particularly cholera, were always contracted as a result of poor hand washing habit.
According to her, proper hand washing with soap under running water would help wash away micro organisms that could not be cleaned with just water.
She stated that the practice of frequent hand washing would enable them to take control of their health as well as empower them to prevent sanitation-related diseases.
She stressed that open defecation had been the major cause of cholera outbreak in the country and, therefore, called on the people to rather promote environmental hygiene by making their homes and surroundings clean.
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She further urged them to avoid eating cold foods as well as ensure that the water that they drank was boiled to prevent the prevalent rate of cholera outbreak.
She cautioned them against the eating of monkeys, since they were geographically located in the forest zone and mosquitoes that preyed on monkeys spread yellow fever in the environment.
NADMO Coordinator
The Agona East District Coordinator of NADMO, Mr John Kuntu Blankson, said in an interview that the project was part of his outfit’s action plan for the year 2016.
He noted that the move was to prevent any epidemic that might result in a national disaster.
He indicated that NADMO was more concerned about the prevention of disasters rather than waiting for them to occur to compel the government to spend huge sums of money to battle them, noting that such funds could be channelled into other productive sectors.
He also called on the people in disaster-prone communities to be cautious, in the face of the onset of the rains so as to prevent disasters in their localities.