The Information Services Department (ISD) says it is carrying out the needed sensitization on the COVID-19 disease in all communities across the country.
Mr Charles Wereko, Acting Director of the ISD, debunked allegations that his outfit was not visible in the districts.
Mr Wereko who visited the Tema Metropolis to assess the education programmes ISD officials were doing in the Metropolis said because people were not seeing the branded yellow and green vans of the Department; they concluded that nothing was being done.
He revealed that due to the inadequacy of their vans for the education in all the 216 districts in Ghana, management of the ISD was collaborating with the district assemblies for the use of their vehicles for the exercise.
He indicated that all assembly vehicles being used for the COVID-19 education nationwide had an ISD commentator in it doing the sensitization as they had been trained to carry out such educations in the communities as it was their mandate to educate the public on government policies and topical issues.
The Ag Director said the education was being done in the local language an area uses most to ensure that residents understood the education on the dos and don’ts of the disease and the need to observe all preventive measures.
He appealed to the media to join the ISD in educating the populace saying there was the need for every stakeholder to spread the message on the need for people to stay at home as the virus only moved and spread when people moved.
Mr Felix Mensah Nii Anang-La, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, who received the ISD management to the Metropolis, recounted measures his outfit had put in place towards reducing the spread of the disease in the area.
Mr Anang-La said his outfit had made available two of its vans to the ISD to educate residents on the disease, preventive measures and need to strictly adhere to the President’s directive on the partial lockdown.
