Cholera prevention project to be completed soon

The emergency Accra pilot cholera prevention project being constructed at Kokomlemle would be completed by the end of October.

The project is to help prevent cholera outbreak within Kokomlemle and its surrounding areas.

Ghana, especially Accra, is battling choleraoutbreak, with over 17,000 cases and 150 deaths recorded so far this year.

Mr Simon T. Sawer, Managing Director of Sawer-Nanor and Sons Company Limited (SNS), contractors for the project, said the project, which commenced on August 16, is expected to be completed by October ending.

Mr Sawer in an interview with the Ghana News Agency said that the project, which was in two phases was more than 85 per cent complete.

When completed, the facility would have a holding bay, store room, caretaker's office structure, tricycle climbing ramp with side guard rails and a 54 metre long fence wall, he said.

Other features include a 28 metre long retaining wall, structural steel roof over a 23 metre cube container, paved walkways and drainage structure.

Mr Francis A. Akoto, Technical Engineer at Waste Landfills Company Limited, the company executing the project, said it was being funded by Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development while the Accra Metropolitan Assembly was the client.

Mr Akoto, who is the Project Engineer, said that the waste collection catchment for the project covered the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Kokomlemle and Avenor.

When it starts operation, a waste tonnage of 69.4 is expected to be received daily compared to the 25.7 tonnes currently.

An estimated number of 25 tricycles and 15 toll trucks would be using the site, which would have a standing capacity of 70 metric cube and 140 metric cube operational capacity.

Mr Akoto advised residents and refuse collectors to desist from dumping refuse in unauthorised areas, as has become the norm.

He gave the assurance that his outfit would offload the containers on time to prevent an overflow.