Story: Maxwell Adombila Akalaare
DIZENGOFF Ghana Limited (DWA) offered a public health
training seminar to hotel managers, maintenance directors and the leading staff
of some other hospitality service providers in Accra on the various mechanisms
required to control pests in their buildings and apartments. The seminar also
focused in some innovative methods for the fight against malaria.
The training exposed the participants, who included members of the registered
pest controllers association, to the right chemicals needed to control pests in
residential and office apartments.
About 100 people participated in the training, which focused on the safety
precautions in spraying, the right chemical identification, and the
minimisation of the impact of the chemicals on human lives and the environment
while spraying.
The Commercial Manager of DWA’s Agriculture Division, Mr Boaz Yagel
Ziegelboim, told the Daily Graphic after the training, that it
was a part of Dizengoff’s commitment to introducing safer and modern techniques
of pest and disease control to the Ghanaian public. While noting that most pest
and disease vectors, like mosquitoes, can be controlled “easily through
effective spraying,” Mr Ziegelboim said that people needed to be more careful
with the chemicals used, given the health implications.
“We’ve realised that most fumigations are not done with the right chemicals,
and that is a concern for us... If people use the wrong chemicals, human lives
and property will definitely be at stake,” he said, explaining that such
happenings motivated the company to share its expertise with people in the
industry.
The Coordinator of Public Health at DWA, Ms. Magdalene Akposoe, advised
public and private institutions to always go for recognised fumigators given
the increasing number of people parading as such. “There are a lot of people
who carry knapsack sprayers around, claiming to be pest controllers. Yet, the
sources of their chemicals are not known... Most of them also don’t have the
relevant expertise for the job and therefore, using their services can be
damaging at times,” she said. She added that DWA’s spraying team is always
willing to assist people in need, and she further called on those interested in
services not to hesitate in contacting them for help.
Mr. Ziegelboim’s explained that DWA has, over the years, accumulated
expertise and developed products and services for the country’s public health
sector. Such products – most of which are targeted at vectors, pests, insects
and other organisms in homes and offices – are patronised countrywide due to
their effectiveness. One such product is the Trigger, an insecticide that
controls mosquitoes and vectors in homes and other apartments and can last for
about two to three months once sprayed.
“We know that malaria is a big problem in Ghana especially for children;
hence the introduction of the Trigger to compliment other methods is
significant,” DWA’s Commercial Manager Mr. Ziegelboim added. He thus called on the
public institutions to collaborate with DWA’s advice to help fumigate their
surroundings to curb diseases, particularly for mosquitos.
Maxwell Adombila Akalaare
Business and Financial Journalist
Graphic Communications Group Limited
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