EHSAN President, Prof Godson Ana (third from left), flanked by Professor Kabiru K. Adeyemo, VC, Lead City University (right), and keynote speaker, Professor Akinwale Coker, among others at the event.
Environmental health is an important aspect of public health. If environmental health principles which are preventive in nature are prioritised a lot of health related deaths will be avoided.
This was the view of the National President of the Environmental Health Scientists Association of Nigeria, Professor Godson Ana.
He said this at the sidelines of the World Environmental Health Day event that took place on Tuesday at Lead City University, Ibadan.
World Environmental Health Day comes up September 26 annually, and this year’s event had the theme: “Prioritising environmental health for healthier communities in global recovery.”
Professor Ana said the day is significant because it draws attention to the importance of the often-neglected environmental health aspect in the domain of public health.
“The World Environmental Health Day is to create awareness of the importance of Environmental Health in the public health domain.
“Often times, Environmental Health aspect is neglected. If environmental health issues that are meant to be preventive in nature are well enshrined and established, then most of the mortalities will be avoided.
“The essence of this programme is to draw the attention of government to priorities environmental health issues, and get more committed in terms of funding and the provision of basic infrastructure to enhance environmental health services to safeguard the health of the public,” Prof Ana said.
He decried the little funding environmental health gets out of what is allocated to the health sector.
The ESAN national president said this must change.
Earlier, in his welcome address, the Vice Chancellor of Lead City University, Professor Kabiru Adeyemo, gave a background to the World Environmental Health Day and how it began.
He said, “The World Environmental Health Day was launched by the International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) Council as a yearly event, and was first held in 2011 in Indonesia In 2012. The event was observed in Africa and Europe and was supported in 2013 by Canadian British, American, Australian, and Asian activists.”
The vice-chancellor noted that the 2021 World Environmental Health Day was organized by Environmental Health Scientists Association (EHSAN), Oyo State Chapter in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Health Science, Lead City University, Ibadan.
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