The Unposted Environmental Health Officers and Assistants Association of Ghana is shocked at the alarming incident rate of cholera outbreak in the country, claiming many lives since October 24, 2024.
In a statement, the association extended its condolences to affected families, calling on the government to adopt stringent measures to curtail the spread of the disease.
Blaming years of neglect in the environmental health sector, the association said the poor sanitation conditions in the country contributes to the surge in communicable and preventable diseases such as cholera, typhoid, and malaria.
They criticised the government's failure to recruit trained environmental health officers, leaving thousands of graduates 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 emphasised.
