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The Environmental Health Officers Alliance Ghana (EHOAG) has threatened to suspend the burial of corpses of victims who died from Covid-19 in the country if the government fails to provide their staff at various assemblies with the necessary logistics to carry on their duties.
The National President for EHOAG who also doubles as the acting District Environmental Health Officer for Denkyembour District in the Eastern region, Mr. Yaw Akwaa Lartey, revealed this to the media during the burial of two more Covid-19 corpses, which add up to ten at the Akwatia cemetery.
The government, he said, has refused to provide them with adequate PPE’s and hearse in the various assemblies across the country to carry out their duties.
He added that the government is only interested in providing the necessary logistics for the Ministry of Health (nurses and doctors) and leaving them behind and warned they are not going to risk their lives anymore.
He further revealed that because there are no hearse at the various assemblies, they are always forced to hire long KIA vehicles or tricycles when the private hearse owners refuse to transport the bodies, which poses a health risk to the public.
According to him, it is dangerous to public health because the KIA vehicle owners sometimes refuse requests to have their vehicles disinfected after the Covid corpses have been conveyed to the cemetery, and later use these vehicles to carry foodstuffs to marketplaces.
He noted that under the Health Profession Regulatory Act 2013, there are eighteen bodies regulated by the Allied Health Professional Council that falls under the Ministry of Health.
Only the Environmental Health Officers, he said, are left out in anything associated with health issues even during the Covid-19 pandemic.
He cautioned Ghanaians who still doubt the existence of Covid-19 in the country to adhere to the safety protocols and properly dispose of used masks because people are really dying from Covid-19.
The Denkyembour District alone, he said, has buried ten people so far.
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