The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has supported government’s decision to establishment a Fair Wages Commission to oversee wage disparities at the labour front.

The Association says the move would help reduce the frequent industrial actions witnessed over the last few months.

Dr Francis Adu-Ababio, President of the Association believes the setting up of a Fair Wages Commission, recently announced by government is in the right direction and asked government to consider paying living wages to public sector workers after exhaustive job description and evaluation.

But the GMA is taking government to task for failing to ensure proper environmental sanitation. At its just ended annual general conference the Association asked government to put sanitation on the national agenda.

The Association says it is worried that the general insanitary conditions if left unchecked, could spur an epidemic and adversely affect the heath of Ghanaians.

It says the continued dominance of preventable diseases mostly environmentally related should be a cause for concern and decried government’s apparent inability to enforce existing laws, bye-laws and regulations on the environment.

The GMA held the conference under the theme ‘Environmental Sanitation, Law and Order and Health’ to highlight the importance of environmental sanitation.

Dr Adu-Ababio said government must make environmental sanitation a prime national agenda.

As a first step the GMA has asked all doctors and health professionals to educate their clients and communities on basic hygienic practices.