Trends Envitech Limited, an environment management company, is undertaking a GH¢10,000.00 fumigation project at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to help solve its sanitation challenges. The five-day exercise, which started on Tuesday, would include disinfecting the 23 wards and drainage system against crawling and flying insects as well as rodents. Mr Delali Kofi Adayi, Administrative Director of Trends Envitech, said the project was part of the company's corporate social responsibility toward the development and well-being of the inmates. "As a company, we are aware of the numerous challenges the hospital faces in terms of sanitation," he said. Mr Adayi stated that the pest control component of the exercise was a preventive measure to help avert some of the common diseases, including malaria and skin disease suffered by inmates as a result of bites from lice and bedbugs. Mr Abraham Bortei, Deputy Health Service Administrator of the Hospital, said they faced challenges like acute shortage of water and lack of accommodation among others. He said the hospital was congested because it was built for only 600 patients some106 years ago but is now housing 1,200 patients. Mr Bortei revealed that since the establishment of the Hospital, only 30 per cent of its sewage system had been changed to plastic pipes, adding "this is causing the low pressure of water to the hospital." He was optimistic that once the system was modified, the water problem would be a thing of the past with a called on other organizations to come to the aid of the hospital. Source: GNA