The South-West chapter of the Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria (EHOAN ) has called on the government, international development partners, private sector and non government organisations (NGOs) to increase investment in Environmental Health Audit and Sanitary Inspection of Premises for scaling up sanitation development in the country.
While reviewing the causes and effects on the environmental issues, the association and other stakeholders said there is urgent need for government at all levels to provide well-equipped public health laboratories for prompt analysis of all environmental health-related specimens.
The group, in a communique issued at the end of a one-day extended meeting of stakeholders held recently at Trans Amusement Park, Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, also urged stakeholders in sanitation to put in place mechanism for sustained public enlightenment, advocacy for attitudinal change towards sanitation and hygiene matters in the country.
Those in attendance tincluded leaders of the association, past and present presidents, secretaries, executive members of the South-West EHOAN, among others.
The group recommended that doing so will help keep the state and country in hygienic environment suitable for all and sundry.
President of EHOAN in South-West, Dr Tope Akinwumi together with representative of the Elders’ Forum, Professor Sunday Ojewale, member communiqué drafting committee, Dr Samuel Akingbehin, and chairman, communiqué drafting committee, Dr Rotimi Adeyemi, explained that the recent developments within the profession of Environmental Health in the South-West and in particular Nigeria, had been giving the stakeholders and environmental health workers a lot of concerns.
“An extended one-day meeting was held at the EHOAN House, Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-Ibadan, Oyo State, on April 26 to discuss and review the present practice model and chart the way forward,” the communiqué said.
He noted that 56 participants across South-West, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Lagos and Ekiti states attended the meeting to preview seventh South-West EHOAN Annual Scientific Conference, coming up in July and other modalities in the association.
Also, the meeting looked into the proliferation of environmental health training in unaccredited, unrecognised and unregistered training institutions in the South-West causes, effects and practicable sustainable measures to pruning it down to acceptable threshold.
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