The management of the Subin Sub-Metro Mutual Health Insurance Scheme, in collaboration with the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and Zoomlion, organised a clean-up exercise within its catchment area on Republic day to sensitise the public to the need to recognise environmental cleanliness as a key to healthy life.
The exercise, which lasted for about four hours, was concentrated in suburbs like Amakom, Asafo, Oforikrom, Afful-Nkwanta and the Central Business District of Adum.
It received massive response from residents who supported the organisers to desilt choked gutters, sweep the principal streets and to clear bushy areas, while others used wheelbarrows to cart the refuse.
Officers from the Fire Service also supported the exercise in diverse ways.
Later in an interview with the Daily Graphic, the Manager of Subin Mutual Health Insurance Scheme, Ms Esther Odoom, noted that the exercise, which is the first of its kind by the scheme managers, was part of the measures to conscientise the public to undertake regular clean-up exercises in residential areas to enhance a clean environment all the time.
She pointed out that with a clean environment, diseases like malaria, cholera, dysentery and typhoid fever, which thrived in unhygienic environments could be prevented.
This, she said, would go a long way to reduce the cost of treating them , making it possible for the government to use the resources to be used in treating such diseases to other sensitive areas to accelerate socio-economic development.
Ms Odoom said with the rains intensifying, gutters were likely to get choked while pools of water would collect to create a conducive environment for mosquitoes to lay eggs, " but if we sustain this exercise, we would be able to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs in stagnant waters, thereby reducing malaria attacks".
She said apart from the clean-up exercise, the managers of the Subin Mutual Health Insurance Scheme would also organise a health walk in December this year to promote regular exercising as a therapy.
"There would be a fruit cocktail at the end of the health walk in December to sensitise the public to the need to take in a lot of fruits and vegetables to promote their health", she noted, adding " true freedom is to leave in a healthy environment and enjoy good health all the time".
Ms Odoom, therefore, urged the public to support their initiatives to ensure a healthy environment.
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