Friday, July 3, 2009

ZOOMLION TO TRAIN 420 TO FIGHT MOSQUITOES (PAGE 21, JUNE 30)

ZOOMLION Ghana Limited, a waste management company, is to train 420 people who are to be grouped into spraying gangs in the Western Region, to specifically undertake periodic spraying and larviciding of mosquito breeding sites in the region.
The company, in collaboration with metropolitan, municipal and district environmental officers in the region, have already surveyed and mapped out all the mosquito breeding sites in the region for the exercise.
Each metropolis, municipality and district has selected 20 people to undergo the training and form the spraying gangs for the exercise, which is part of a nation-wide mosquito control programme.
The Western Regional Operations Supervisor of Zoomlion, Mr Felix Boankrah, made this known to the Daily Graphic in Takoradi.
He explained that the exercise would target public places of convenience, urinal sites, container sites, drains and ditches, stagnant waters, marketplaces and final refuse disposal sites.
Mr Boankrah said the programme was intended to control disease vectors.
 

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