The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) on Sunday called for a serious national re-orientation on basic hygiene and environmental friendly practices right from pre-school through basic education and beyond.The Association therefore called on health professionals to kick-start the campaign by adopting the education of their clients and communities on basic hygiene, as a key component of their services.
These were contained in a nine-point communiqué issued at the end of the Association’s annual general conference held in Ho. The six-day meeting was under the theme: "Environmental sanitation law and order and health".
The communiqué urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to rigidly enforce their environmental sanitation by-laws.
It entreated the government, “as matter of urgency”, to adequately resource agencies and departments responsible for land management to enable them to enforce laws governing sound environmental practices.
The GMA urged government to liaise with the National House of Chiefs to develop “a more pragmatic and environmentally friendly system of land management”.
The Association tasked the government and related agencies to tackle the illicit drug menace in the country “with all seriousness” and recommended that the Ministry of Health should establish adequately funded units for the rehabilitation of persons suffering from illicit drug use.
It also urged politicians to focus on a common agenda for national development and refrain from polluting the current peace in the country.
The communiqué implored government to seriously consider paying living wages and salaries to public sector workers, “based on exhaustive job description and evaluation,” to ensure equity and fairness in the sector.
GNA
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