An officer at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has lamented how the environmental health and sanitation sector is neglected and its officers underpaid in Ghana.
Mrs.
Florence Kuukyi, the Public Health Director, AMA, spoke to Taller Dee on Journey to Heaven on No.1 FM, 105.3. "Environmental health officers are the most neglected warriors in the system.
Meanwhile, if they are not there, a lot of things will go on because we are prevention officers," she said. "Any government that gives adequate attention to preventive officers advances rapid development. "Environmental officers are key - the backbone - for development all across the globe.