Workshop on sanitary inspection ends at Takoradi

Takoradi, Dec 29, GNA - A one-week workshop on the re-introduction of sanitary inspection teams for 40 environmental health officers from all the 13 districts of the Western Region ended at Takoradi on Thursday. The workshop was organised by the Ministry of Rural Development, Environment and Science to prepare the participants for the take-off of sanitary inspection teams.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the workshop Mr. Anthony Milton Hayford, Prosecutor of the Environmental Health Division of the Shama-Ahanta East Metropolitan Assembly, said the re-introduction of sanitary inspection teams would take effect from January 1, 2007.

He welcomed the re-introduction of the sanitary inspection teams saying this would assist to keep the environment clean.

Mr. Hayford said the inspection teams would undertake routine house-to-house inspection and prosecute offenders.

He said environmental challenges facing the metropolis included embalming of corpses in residential houses especially at New Takoradi and Kwesimintsim and indiscriminate disposal of refuse and waste. Mr. Hayford appealed to the public to co-operate with the sanitary inspection teams to improve environmental conditions in the area.