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The Atebubu-Amantin moves to combat COVID-19

The Atebubu-Amantin municipal assembly is putting in place measures to combat any potential outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic in the municipality.

Date Created : 3/27/2020 7:57:51 AM : Story Author : Daniel Oduro-Stewart/Ghanadistricts.com

As a first step, the assembly has donated two veronica buckets with ancillary facilities each to the Atebubu market association and the two transport unions in Atebubu.

Making the presentations the municipal chief executive Hon. Edward Owusu asked the people to practice constant handwashing and maintain social distance.

He said the assembly is expecting about 100 veronica buckets from the ministry of Local Government and Rural Development whiles the assembly is also procuring an undisclosed number to ensure that these facilities are available at vantage points throughout the municipality.

The MCE and his team later toured a number of institutions in the Atebubu to ascertain for themselves measures put in place to safeguard the public as well as employees from contracting the disease. These included financial institutions, filling stations and telecoms.

It came out that while some have put in adequate measures to like the provision of handwashing facilities and sanitizers to prevent any potential contamination and spread of the disease, others had half-baked or no measures at all in place.

The MCE directed defaulting institutions to immediate steps to rectify the situation failing which the assembly will move to enforce compliance.

The assembly through various stakeholders is using radio to educate the populace on the disease while the Information Services Department has been put on a field campaign in a bid to create awareness of the pandemic.