The Upper West Regional Branch of Zoomlion Ghana Limited has massively started disinfecting places that serve as major breeding grounds for disease-transmitting vectors to ensure a clean and healthy environment in the locality. The exercise, which was enthusiastically carried out across the nine districts in the region, covered important areas such as public toilets, the communal garbage container sites, other refuse dumping sites, as well as educational and health institutions. Other places which could potentially harbour houseflies, mosquitoes and other disease-transmitting vectors were also disinfected during the exercise. Mr Ezekiel Ayamga, the Regional Vector Control Officer, said the purpose of the exercise was to reduce the breeding of disease-transmitting vectors and their related sicknesses. Mr Ayamga said the disinfectants were environmentally friendly and had the power to kill germs and abate the offensive odours emanating from public toilets, dumping sites and other stinking places that posed threat to human health. Another exercise known as 'derrating,' the process of killing rodents, was carried out at market centres to eliminate rats and mice as they posed a great danger to human life, food and property. Mr Emmanuel Volsuuri, the Regional Operations Supervisor, said the company had also embarked on intensive media sensitization, including announcements at lorry stations and market places, to educate the public on the need to take up good sanitation practices to avoid sanitation related diseases. Source: GNA