Given the headache that sanitation currently presents for communities all over the country, it is surprising that emphasis is not being put on teaching sanitation and hygiene in schools to inculcate such habits in children at an early age – as used to be the practice in the past.
People of a certain age still speak with nostalgia of their school days when even teeth and fingernails were regularly inspected at school and pupils were allocated plots on the school compound to keep clean and tidy.
The need to go back to teaching hygiene in schools was reportedly on the agenda recently when school health committees of the Ghana Education Service in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District, Volta Region, met.
As reported by the Ghana News Agency and published in this paper on June 17, members of the committee called for the introduction of hygiene as a co-curricular activity in basic schools. In their view, that would help to ensure cleanliness among students as well as sanitation in schools and communities in general.
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