The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Ahafo Ano North Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti Region, Martina Appiah Nyantekyie, has, as part of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), led a team to educate market women on some preventive measures.
The team comprising health professionals and members of the assembly visited the Tepa Market last Thursday.
Among other things, the team members cautioned the public to practise basic hygiene and ensure healthy lifestyle.
One of the basic hygiene practices they taught was hand washing. The MCE, through a demonstration, showed the onlookers how to effectively wash the hands.
Through the demonstration, he mentioned that hand washing must take at least 20 seconds and must be done thoroughly under running water.
He used the occasion to donate some Veronica buckets to the market and urged both traders and patrons to put them into good use.
Municipal Health Director Joseph Adomako admonished them to observe all the precautions prescribed by the Ghana Health Service since the COVID-19 is real.
Throwing light on social distancing, the Health Director stated that it had become one of the major means of fighting the pandemic, and advised that the public should desist from trivial travels and avoid handshaking.
With regard to hand sanitizers, the director stated that its application is good and appealed to the traders to reduce the cost to make it affordable for all.
Besides, Mr. Adomako used the occasion to advise the public to adopt both coughing and sneezing on the elbow as part of our culture.