Director of the Larger Accra Fisheries Fee has indicated the Fisheries and Aquaculture Growth Ministry’s preparedness to distribute 40,000 facemasks to fishing communities to support the fight against Covid-19.
Michael Dadzie made this identified in the course of an interview on Adom FM’s Burning Concerns recent affairs demonstrate.
The Director shared other plans earmarked by his Ministry to make certain social distancing as Ghana’s Covid-19 scenarios go on to soar.
In accordance to Michael Dadzie, the Ministry will distribute hand sanitisers as well as intensify education by dispatching information and facts vans to coastal communities.
“ We are working frantically to get 40, 000 first deal with mask to the fishing communities. We will add to this number as time goes on. We will include hand sanitizer as well to aid fishers.
Presently, the Ministry is partaking some facts centres within just these communities to also include to the training on Covid-19,” Michael Dadzie pressured.
The Ministry also programs to develop a miniature landing website to endorse social distancing as the present-day landing shorelines do not advertise this protocol. The leadership of the inland fishing affiliation termed for correct registration of all canoes to make it less difficult to detect Ghanaian canoes from other people.
The Affiliation thinks this will make it straightforward to check other international canoes that will stray into the Ghanaian waters. They referred to as for other tools like thermometers to enable them check out the fishermen’s temperature regularly.
“We don’t have the required equipment to struggle the Covid-19 pandemic. We really do not have the accredited facemask and thermometers to test temperature. A lot of overseas canoes from Burkina Faso and Togo continue to patrol our waters. We have to have guidance as inland fishers,” Jacob Ageke Tettey, President of Nationwide Inland Canoe Fishermen Council described.
The fisheries discussion on Burning Issues is supported by the European Union beneath the Much Ban Bo (Safeguarding the livelihood of fishers) Venture in collaboration with Treatment Worldwide, Friends of the Nation and Oxfam.
The fisheries dialogue is a system designed to educate fishers on the Covid-19 pandemic and other fisheries-related concerns.
