It is a five-day training dubbed AVoHC-SURGE training. The absolute training is in 4 modules and will be done aural 4 weeks
The trainees were about called from the country's bloom sector, including energy, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drugs Authority, hospitals, commune assemblies, and borough assemblies, including medical practitioners
The training is to enhance their accommodation to acknowledge to emergency bloom situations in the country and additionally extend their ability to awning the absolute region
In Ghana, some emergency bloom situations are the COVID-19 pandemic, malaria, chicken fever, the Akosombo Dam spillage adversity in the lower Volta, the Appiatse explosion, and the contempo dengue agitation outbreak
Speaking at the aperture commemoration on Monday, July 29, 2024, Dr. Argata Guracha GUYO, Country Emergency Preparedness/IHR Officer, delivered a accent on account of Dr. Frank Lule, Officer in Charge of the Apple Bloom Organization (WHO) Ghana
According to Dr. Frank, the training is all-important because "we admit that the complication and abundance of bloom emergencies are increasing. Therefore, we charge accouter ourselves with the all-important skills, knowledge, and allocation to acknowledge apace and effectively." He added said, "The Africa CDC and WHO accept collaborated to apparatus AVoHC-SURGE trainings aimed at ensuring that African countries are able to acknowledge to bloom emergencies and altruistic crises aural 24 to 48 hours from the time of incident, and Ghana is amid the over 20 countries benefiting from the training so far." "I am assured that this training will accouter us with the abilities and ability all-important to accouterment bloom emergencies effectively. Together, we can accomplish a cogent aberration in attention the bloom and abundance of our communities," he added
According to research, the apple annal about one hundred emergency bloom cases annually, and about 70 percent appear from Africa
On his part, the Director of the Public Bloom Division of the , Dr. Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, came up with the abstraction to action the annoyance some two years ago in Botswana
He said, "We've aggregate actuality these fifty persons, and they'll be accomplished in the areas of surveillance and emergency administration so that if any accident should action in Ghana, they will be the key point of contact, and if there's any big affair in added countries, they can be recruited." The partnered with WHO, Canada, and added all-embracing organizations for the initiative