Zoomlion undertakes mass spraying in Ashanti Region

The Ashanti Regional office of Zoomlion Ghana Limited has sprayed public places as a means of controlling  reptiles insects and micro-organisms that carry and transmit diseases.

The spraying exercise was carried out at markets, public toilets, dump sites, drains and refuse collection points. So far, the Ashanti Region has recorded few cases of cholera for both the second and third quarters of the year. 

Besides spraying, which is periodically done throughout the year,  Zoomlion also cleared  bushes,  removed silt from gutters and discarded disused car tyres that were habitats for mosquitoes and other disease-carrying organisms.

Before the exercise, district environmental and sanitation officers select the areas noted for being infested with diseases. Having identified the sites Zoomlion then goes in to disinfect the areas. 

Already, close to 70 key areas in the region have been sprayed. In the end a number of insects, reptiles and rodents were killed.

The programme 

The Zoomlion Vector Control Officer for the Ashanti Region, Mr Le-Roy Gyamfi-Buadi, told the Daily Graphic at one of the sites in Fomena in the Adansi North District, that continuous disinfection broke the life cycle of disease-causing organisms.

He said in larger areas, the company used Boom Sprayers which were vehicles with a connected hose for spraying. In the night, he said, a machine known as the Phoenix Fogger was used. 

According to Mr Gyamfi-Buadi, Zoomlion had almost completed with the areas earmarked for spraying this year.  He said when work was completed another spraying cycle would begin.