ENVIROHEALTH

EnviroHealth will champion environmental health issues which include sanitation, food safety and security, safe water, social housing, and road safety, deforestation and air pollution. The creation of parks, protecting water bodies, and provision and maintenance of appropriate places of convenience on our major travel routes in Ghana will also be part of the portfolio. 

A close look at Ghana through its cities, towns and villages depicts a disordered, littered, smelly, un-sanitized nation, especially Accra and Kumasi. Comparing aerial views of the cities of London and Accra, a Ghanaian is at a great loss as to the untidy maze of the land of his birth. All one sees from an aerial view of Accra is lots light that seem to have been scattered untidily from over head onto a vast expanse of land. You can’t identify streets or familiar landmarks. The stench that hits you as you drive through some streets, the live stocks, that like their owners live on the streets, even the ceremonial streets. Is it a wonder the zoo is not patronized and road traffic accidents is on the increase.

The filth of Ghana is not confined to the cities but one will expect the cities will be cleaner, healthier, and safer in terms of epidemics and disease outbreaks. The streets are littered with ice water rubbers etc, rubbish dumps which are heaps high and close to residences.

In the 21st Century where some nations are looking for ways to resettle their citizens on the planet Mars, Ghana can boost of relics like bins of human excreta being carried by dedicated workers on their heads for disposal, black bag packaged ‘parcels’ that are flung into gutters etc, early morning bumper to bumper traffic at public toilets, and bare behinds raised to discharge that which must be discharged. Even more exciting is the “sight of male penises” (to quote a foreign visitor to Ghana’s words) urinating on our wayside, and these days raised skirts and slits of ‘ladies’ no longer behind parked cars but in direct competition with their male counterparts.   There shall be an organised annual sanitation campaign to address all the issues above.

The point here is that there are not enough places of convenience and the people are not educated enough on the dangers to every one’s health with the improper disposal of waste, let alone the effect on the environment and economy.

The handling, sale, and preservation of matter that we ingest to digest to keep us alive, healthy and strong (food and drink) is one thing that can make us weak, sick and die.

Activities shall include advocacy, creation of a powerful Envirohealth lobby, research and development, and the creation and management of parks and places of convenience/service stops   
 
EnviroHealth will embark on a mass education of the general populace as an initial step to equip every person with knowledge. Every mass media tool will be used, making it one of the biggest campaigns in Ghana.
 
The outlined above is the objectives, direction and target of Healthy Ghana’s EnviroHealth.