Zoomlion intensifies disinfestation exercises in Accra
In a bid to arrest the spread of cholera the Vector Control Unit of Zoomlion has intensified its disinfestation and fumigation exercises in the Accra metropolis.
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The unit has currently deployed its spraying gangs in all the sub-metropolitan areas and districts in the Greater Accra Region for the exercises.
The Greater Accra Regional Head of the Vector Control Programme, Mr Abel Djangmah, who was at the Odorkor market near the Mallam Junction in the Ablekuma North Sub-metro of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, said the exercises were intended to break the link between the disease vector and humans in order that cholera could be controlled.
Houseflies are transmitters of the disease. “When people defaecate in the open, the insect usually settles on the faeces in the course of feeding and in the end picks the disease causing bacteria which it leaves in people’s food,” he said.
He said although the team periodically embarked upon the spraying exercises, it had to be intensified due to the outbreak of cholera in the metropolis and some districts in the region. He also said the activity was an assistance the company was rendering in connection with the government’s directive to get the city clean in a hundred days.
According to Mr Djangmah, the company was in effective collaboration with environmental health officers and assembly members in the various sub-metros and districts in the selection of areas that needed spraying. Besides the disinfestation exercises, he said the company was educating the public on ways of maintaining a clean environment.
He said certain parts had already been covered so the company was targeting new areas. He assured residents in the affected areas of the safety of the chemicals and insecticides that were being used for the spraying exercise.
He expressed his gratitude to health officers and the assembly members who had committed their time and resources to ensure that the spraying exercise was successful.
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He entreated residents of La wireless and Odorkor to desist from the practice of defaecating in the open, as well as throwing refuse about indiscriminately, as it attracted houseflies and blue bottle flies which were key transmission agents of the cholera bacteria.