By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
The Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria in South West (EHOAN ) has called on government, International Development Partners, Private Sector and NGOs to increase investment in Environmental Health Audit and Sanitary Inspection of Premises for scaling up sanitation development in the Country.
The Association and stakeholders while reviewing the causes and effects on the environmental issues hinted there was an urgent need for governments at all levels to provide well-equipped public health laboratories for prompt analysis of all environmental health-related specimens.
EHOAN made the call recently at Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-Ibadan, Oyo State.
The group in a communique issued at the end of a one-day extended meeting of the stakeholders which included Elders, Past and Present Presidents, Secretaries, the Executive Officers of the South West Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria among others also urged stakeholder in sanitation to put in place mechanism for sustained public enlightenment, advocacy for attitudinal change towards sanitation and hygiene matters in the country.
The group recommended that doing so would help keep the state and country in safer, better and hygienic environment suitable for all and sundry to dwell.
According to the Communique, the President of the South-West EHOAN, Dr Tope Akinwumi together with representative of the Elders forum, Prof Sunday A. Ojewale, member Communiqué drafting committee, Dr Samuel Akingbehin, and Chairman, Communiqué drafting committee, Dr (Barrister) Rotimi Adeyemi, explained that the recent developments within the profession of Environmental Health in the South West and in particular Nigeria, has been giving the Stakeholders and environmental health workers a lot of concerns.
According to them, “an extended one-day meeting was held at the EHOAN House, Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-Ibadan, Oyo State, on Wednesday 26th April 2023 to critically discussed, review the present practice model and chat the way forward.”
He noted that a total number of 56 participants from six States in the South West of the Federation Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Lagos and Ekiti State attended the meeting the meeting to reviewed the 7th South West EHOAN Annual Scientific Conference, coming up in July 2023 and other modalities in the association.
Also, the meeting exhaustively looked into the proliferation of Environmental Health training in unaccredited, unrecognised and unregistered training institutions in the South West, Nigeria; causes, effects and practicable sustainable measures to pruning it down to acceptable threshold and legality of the recently constituted Environmental Health Council of Nigeria Board by the Minister of Environment, Hon. Mohammed Abdullahi.
The meeting in-session observed in particular with grave concerns the Legality of the recently constituted Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCN) Board by the Minister of Environment, Hon. Mohammed Abdullahi and opined that the Minister of Environment has per in curia constituted the EHCN Board.
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