Mr Ernest Patrick Kodzo Mallet, District Chief Executive (DCE) for South Dayi, has called on Assembly Members in the District to intensify education on the wearing of nose masks to curb the spread of COVID-19.
He said it was important for the people to be aware of the dangers posed by the novel coronavirus and the need for them to join the fight against the pandemic by observing the health protocols to stem its spread.
Mr Mallet who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Kpeve, the South Dayi District capital said though government was making all efforts at tackling the disease, support from the citizenry was necessarily required to achieve the desired objective.
He therefore called on the citizenry to give the needed support to the government, saying victory against the novel coronavirus could be achieved through collective and concerted effort.
Mr Mallet said the Assembly together with the Health Directorate, the Emergency Health Response Team and other relevant institutions and organizations were working unremittingly to ensure that the District did not record any case of the virus.
He urged the traditional leaders and other opinion leaders in the various communities in the District to also help in the fight against the spread of the disease by educating their people and ensuring that they adhered to the health safety protocols.
Mr Mallet said the Assembly had presented sets of Veronica buckets, 12 infrared thermometers, nose masks, tissue papers, liquid soap, hand sanitizers among others to the District Health Directorate to fight the pandemic and limit its spread.
The DCE said the Assembly had also given items to various markets, traditional authorities, lorry stations, police stations, the court and placed some at vantage points in the various communities to enable people wash their hands regularly.
He said in order to ensure that traders in the various markets in the District observed the social distancing protocol, the Assembly decided to clear surrounding areas of the various markets to make them spacious, and relocate some of the traders to those areas.
Mr Mallet said his outfit was determined to build a robust stand pipe in all the markets in the District to ensure regular hand washing, even after the COVID-19 to make the people healthy and productive.
When the Ghana News Agency visited the Kpeve market, most of the traders in the market were observing the health safety protocols including social distancing, wearing of nose masks and use of hand sanitizers.
Some traders who spoke to the Ghana News Agency expressed satisfaction on the measures being put in place by the Assembly in the market to limit the spread of the virus.
By Caleb Kuleke, GNA
