Cooked food sellers operating at night within the Accra Metropolis have been given a month's ultimatum to undergo medical examination or face arrest and prosecution.
The Acting Director of the Public Health Department of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Mr Emmanuel Akrofi Bruce, told the Ghana News Agency that the Metropolitan Public Health Taskforce would as from this week inspect the health certificate of all food vendors.
Mr Bruce said the operation had become necessary because a lot of food sellers operating in the morning have now shifted their activities to night time to avoid the inspection of their health certificates by the task force.
He noted that many food vendors adopt bad preservation methods, thus posing a great danger to the health of consumers.
Mr Bruce warned that anyone caught selling cooked food in the night without a health certificate would be prosecuted.
