Environmental Health & Sanitation
Environmental Health & Sanitation
The Environmental Health Unit develops and maintains a clean, safe, physical, and natural environment in all human settlements to promote the socio-economic and physical wellbeing of the population.
It is the duty of the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit, with the Assembly's support, to ensure these responsibilities are achieved in line with environmental laws.
Major Activities
Food hygiene, environmental sanitation education, disposal of the dead, control of rearing and straying animals, control of pests and vector diseases, storm water drainage, monitoring environmental standards, inspection and enforcement of sanitary regulations, and industrial and commercial waste management.
Linkages With Other Departments
The Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit collaborates with the following to execute the Assembly's work:
- ✓Zoomlion Ghana Limited
- ✓Works Department
- ✓Food and Drugs Authority
- ✓National Commission for Civic Education
- ✓Physical Planning
- ✓National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO)
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DownloadMajor Activities Achievements from January to May 2022
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DownloadReport on Communal Labour, 3rd Quarter 2023
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DownloadSensitization of Food Vendors and Ghana School Feeding Contractors
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DownloadPercentage of Population with Household Latrine
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DownloadPremises Inspection
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DownloadReport on Solid Waste Management
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DownloadReport on 2nd Quarter Disinfection 2021
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DownloadReport on Stray Animals
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DownloadAnnual Report — Environmental Health and Sanitation
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