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MMDAs must relocate marketplaces from school parks in advance of reopening – TMA Environmental Health and fitness Officers


Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to right away relocate satellite markets on faculty parks in planning toward the reopening of educational institutions for ultimate calendar year pupils.

Most MMDAs in a bid to observe social distancing in crowded marketplaces relocated some traders from their principal markets to college parks.

These markets incorporated the ones established by the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) at the Twedaase Faculty, Local community Seven Faculty Park and the Oninku Drive School Park.

Environmental Wellness Officers at the TMA designed the call for a relocation in an job interview with the Ghana Information Agency pursuing the easing of the ban on social accumulating and schools in the 10th COVID-19 countrywide deal with by the President.

The President announced that from June 15, 2020 faculties were reopened for remaining calendar year students of tertiary establishments which would be adopted by kind three and type two gold monitor college students of the Senior Significant University on June 22, 2020, and that of junior large universities on June 29, 2020.

Mr Joshua Manab, and Mr Benjamin Kwame Opare, Assistant Main Environmental Officer and Environmental Well being Officer respectively, claimed the closing year students would not be capable to go to faculty when the markets were nonetheless running on their premises.

They stated that creating a harmless natural environment for instructing and discovering was very important therefore the want to urgently relocate the traders back into the marketplaces or to football parks and any offered sites in the region as a substitute of the colleges.

They described that an environmentally welcoming position for mastering need to be devoid of sounds, dust and waste, saying these a few matters could not be guaranteed when the satellite marketplaces remained as according to them, sound and waste era was a widespread feature of markets.

The environmental officers explained it would be complicated for pupils to concentrate in the classroom though traders shout and simply call for potential buyers on their compound incorporating that college students mingling with traders and consumers could also increase the chances of recording Covid-19 in colleges.

Meanwhile, the GNA learnt that all next cycle institutions in Tema Metropolis had been disinfected with strategies state-of-the-art for the exercising to be carried out at the basic colleges ahead of the day of reopening for the JHS ultimate yr learners.

Mr Frank Asante, Tema Metropolitan Assembly’s Public Affairs Officer reacting to the connect with reported the Assembly had fulfilled with the industry queens and was placing in measures to make sure the markets were being COVID-19 protocols pleasant right before opening.

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