Ebenezer Kye-Mensah handing over the items to Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyirah
GLOBAL COMMUNITIES and non-governmental organisation, in collaboration with the United States Aid for International Development (USAID) has donated 16,000 strips of chlorine tablets to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to support activities towards the country’s cholera prevention.
The chlorine strips are to be distributed to communities without potable drinking water to purify their water before consumption in order to prevent the occurrence of cholera.
One tablet of the Aquatabs presented to the GHS can purify 20 litres of water within 30 minutes and, it is, therefore, envisaged to help communities in cholera prevention.
Ebenezer Kye-Mensah, Senior Capacity Building Specialist at the Global Communities, presenting the items said the Aquatabs are to disinfect water to make it potable.
He, therefore, hoped the support would help the country in its prevention of cholera cases.
Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyirah, Director General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), expressed his appreciation to the organisations for their support towards cholera prevention.
He said the Aquatabs would be distributed to the high cholera-prone communities, and advised the public to put the tablets only in water to disinfect it.
Dr Appiah-Denkyirah also called on the public to observe high personal hygiene, while assuring them that the GHS was doing its best to militate against the recurrence of cholera.
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri
Via: -Daily Guide
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