AngloGold Ashanti Ghana Limited (AGAG) has rolled out a series of interventions and campaigns in the Obuasi townships as part of measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19).
The mining company has deployed the services of its malaria control subsidiary, AngloGold Ashanti Malaria Control (AGAMal) and its hospital, the AGA Health Foundation to lend support to the intervention programmes.
It is to support the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate, Obuasi Municipal and District Assemblies and the Municipal Health Directorate.
More than 20 health facilities together with all the markets in the Obuasi community are being disinfected daily by the company.
With an excellent geodata of the Obuasi community due to the Indoor Residual Spraying for malaria, AGAMal, daily disinfects all the 21 health centres in the Obuasi Municipality and District. These include the Bryant Mission Hospital, Kunka Community Health Centre and the AGA Health Foundation (AGAHF).
The markets are also disinfected twice a week, which include the Obuasi Central Market, Horsey Park and Tutuka market as part of efforts to disinfect major public places.
Covid-19 education and campaign
The Mine has released its Malaria Control (AGAMal) Communication Vans as part of the massive educational campaign on staying safe and preventing oneself from the Covid-19.
In addition, they have distributed many information materials, mounted billboards and fixed posters, and held radio programs all in effort to propagate prevention messages on Covid-19.
In addition to the disinfection exercise, a massive educational campaign on Covid-19 is ongoing in Obuasi using AGAMal’s information van,
Senior Manager Sustainability, AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, Emmanuel Baidoo, says the intervention is to support the business community within which it operates. “We are also working very hard with the municipal and district assemblies to step up education in our communities, we have released our malaria control communication vans and is moving all around the obuasi community educating the people.“Working with municipal assemblies and health directorates, we share our best practices as far as Workplace management is concerned so that they can also learn from and then adopt some of the practices to improve their own interventions.” Other innovation support initiatives The AGA Health Foundation has meanwhile trained personnel in the Government Hospital in sample taking who are supporting with taking samples of suspected Covid-19 persons, and sending them for testing.In addition, the mine has distributed over hundred special buckets fixed with taps and soap dispenser (Veronica buckets) to Obuasi Municipal and Obuasi East District Assemblies […]
