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School children listen with rapt attention to instructions.

Schoolchildren in Ga East educated on cholera

The Ga East Municipal Assembly (GEMA) has initiated a cholera sensitisation programme aimed at combating the epidemic in the municipality.

The exercise formed part of the assembly’s plans to manage the cholera situation following a directive from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development asking all metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies throughout the country to activate programmes to counteract the disease.

A team from the assembly, including officials from the education, health, environment and public relations directorates, visited the Dome and Taifa clusters of Schools to educate the children on the causes and ways of preventing and treating cholera. Other departments from the assembly that took part in the schools visitation programme were the Information Service Department, National Commission on Civic Education and the Department of Community Development. 

Over 3,000 pupils attended the programme, which was held on two separate days for schools in the two communities. As a side attraction, the children were treated to a five-minute cartoon video on cholera, which was projected on a giant screen. 

Lessons learnt

The Municipal Disease Control Officer of the Health Service Directorate, Mr George Asumah Adu, entreated the children to adhere to the lessons in the video clip. He urged them in turn to educate their friends and family members on what they had learnt from the film.

He advised them to wash their hands with soap under running water before they ate and after attending to the call of nature. 

He said, “If this habit is practised always, the cases of cholera in the communities will be minimised.”

There were messages from  other officials of the team. They touched on various topics regarding how the disease was being managed in Accra and the rest of the country.

The pupils were also offered the opportunity to ask questions and the officials provided the needed answers. 

Also present at the ceremony were the assembly members for Dome East and Dome West as well as Taifa, Messrs Mohammed Ali, Benjamin Okai and Agyenim Boateng respectively. 

According to the organisers of the programme, similar exercises would be carried out in other communities in the municipality.

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