CHOLERA IS EMINENT IN FIASO

From: Michael Sarpong MFUM, Fiaso

The outbreak of Cholera and other water-borne diseases are eminent in the Fiaso community in the Techiman Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region because of the absence of toilet facility. The residents are always living in a constant fear of the outbreak of a disease.

The population of Fiaso is 6,423 who are predominately farmers. Fiaso is a major yam growing community in the Brong Ahafo Region.

Open defecation has become a daily ritual in the community.The Residents in community use the only refuse dump as their place of convenience. People from across the country always come to the community to purchase and where to ease themselves is always a problem.

Apart from yam they also grow maize, cassava, mango cashew and garden eggs but with the huge population in the community there is no single toilet in the community.

The residents use the only refuse dump as their place of convenience. Open defecation has become a daily norm in the community for men, women and children. Their sources of water in the community the River Fia and Asu Kwatia are always polluted by waste from the refuse dump.

Whenever it rains it washes the dirty from the refuse dump down to the two rivers to pollute them. Some of the residents share their sentiments on the absence of toilet facilities in the Fiaso community.

The leaders in the community say all efforts made to the Techiman Municipal Assembly to get a toilet facility have not yield any positive results.

The chief of Fiaso Agyewodin Kwarteng Ababio I, has called on the Techiman Municipality to help the community to get a toilet facility.