Minister suggests sanitation in basic school curriculum

Mr Alexander John Ackon, the Ashanti Regional Minister has called for the introduction of sanitation practice lessons into the curriculum of basic schools.

He said the practice would imbibe some principles into the minds of pupils in the basic schools and change the mindset of the children towards best sanitation and good environmental practices.

Mr Ackon said this when he addressed the media after a four-hour clean-up exercise of a two kilometre stretch of road to observe the National Sanitation Day (NSD) exercise in the Asokori Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region.

The NSD exercise is observed every first Saturday of the month and was instituted by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

The exercise is to revive the spirit of communal labour and to ensure attitudinal change towards the promotion of environmental and public health.

He said the issue of ensuring good sanitation practices was a shared responsibility among the citizenry and government.

The Regional Minister noted that it was important to sustain the exercise to promote a healthy nation with healthy citizens.

“Diseases do not know anybody, but will attack anybody at all who does not keep his or her environment clean,” the Minister said.

Source: GNA