Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a waste management company, on Saturday carried out a disinfection exercise at the Ashanti Regional Police Training School in Kumasi.
The exercise was part of the company’s mass disinfection operation being carried out across the country to curb the pandemic of the novel coronavirus.
It is meant to help minimize the spread of the virus at public places such as lorry stations, educational institutions, hospitals, markets, neighborhoods, churches and sanitation facilities.
Management of the company has named institutions and markets, as they are their primary target for the sterilization operations.
At the Police Training School, dormitories, classrooms, and offices were dosed with disinfectant by spraying guards of Zoomlion, who stormed there during the weekend.
The Ashanti Regional Manager of the company, Franklin Ofori Akuffo, said Zoomlion was determined to carry out all-round sterilization operations in many public places.
According to him, the use of chlorine and other insecticide for the disinfection exercise is effective not only on the virus, but also on bacterial and insects such as cockroaches and bedbugs.
It can also ward off reptiles and other unwarranted creatures, Mr. Akuffo added.
The officer commanding the Ashanti Regional Police Training School, ACP Charles Botwe, thanked the management of Zoomlion for the disinfection exercise.
He was particularly happy that the company chose the training school as one of the beneficiaries of the mass spraying exercise.
By Ernest Kofi Adu