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WATERAid Ghana has launched a project dubbed: ‘Clean Ghana,’ under the IGNITE programme to improve and sustain healthy behaviours in health facilities and communities in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region.
WATERAid Ghana has launched a project dubbed: ‘Clean Ghana,’ under the IGNITE programme to improve and sustain healthy behaviours in health facilities and communities in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region.
The campaign targets 510 health staff from doctors, nurses and cleaners to security personnel to ensure that health care facilities become a model of excellence in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Practices.
Participants were drawn from across key stakeholders like health sector players to community folks including traditional authorities.
Unveiling the campaign, the Director of Programmes at WaterAid, Mohammed Ibrahim Adokor, stated that the Campaign, under the ignite project is a shared purpose and a common goal at the heart of human dignity.
“When health centres are clean and safe, they become places of healing and trust, especially pregnant women and new borns,” he declared.
He underscored that WaterAid has the vision and commitment to the health of mothers and the future of their children, and the resilience of the community where everyone everywhere has sustainable water.
He indicated that the foundation of their vision was built on hygiene and guided by the provision of sustainable WASH which is evident in a healthier municipality through the provision of improved Water Systems at facilities such as Sabuli, Ullo and Gbare Health Care Centres.
The Programme Director clarified that the campaign would directly engage fathers, mothers, caregivers, children under five, lactating mothers and young adolescent girls.
He added that the campaign was expected to reach 1,000 households and a population of over 100,000 lives including children who will be impacted through the prevention of malnutrition and diseases.
The Jirapa Municipal Health Director, Florence Angsomwine, indicated that the level of water borne diseases such as diarrhea that were recorded at health care facilities which were preventable and urged all to drink clean and live clean.
She observed that the chunk of disease incidence is malnutrition and called for more effort to eliminate it through the constant practice of hygiene such as washing hands with soap and water.
The Municipal Health Director commended WaterAid for choosing Jirapa through what she described as their sustained partnership to implement the project and also build the capacities of health workers.
