The Unposted Environmental Health Officers and Assistants Association of Ghana has expressed deep concern over the ongoing cholera outbreak, which has claimed several lives since October 24, 2024.
In a statement, the association extended condolences to affected families and urged the government to take urgent steps to curb the spread of the disease.
Blaming years of neglect in the environmental health sector, the association pointed to poor sanitation as a key factor in the surge of preventable diseases such as cholera, typhoid, and malaria.
They criticized the government's failure to recruit trained environmental health officers, leaving thousands of graduates from the country's three schools of hygiene unemployed for over four years. "For over four and a half years, graduates from the three schools of hygiene in Ghana have been left unemployed, despite our extensive training and readiness to contribute to the nation's environmental health," the statement emphasized.
