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THE SANITATION TALE OF DOMINASE ONION TRADERS 2

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A year ago

The main latrine office the merchants use at the market is claimed by a confidential person who charges somewhere in the range of GH¢1 and GH¢2 per use.

 

The 20-seater latrine office (10 each for male and female brokers) is situated around 200 meters from the market and is inadequately kept up with.

 

A foul smell radiates from the latrine work spaces as individuals advance inside. Unfortunate lighting and ventilationalso makes openness challenging for supporters.

 

This present circumstance compels a portion of the brokers, transporters, drivers' mates, and head doormen as well as benefactors of the market to involve other unhygienic means for their everyday Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) needs.

 

"We don't have a decision, we are compelled to go there or discover some way out," says a broker who likes to be recognized as, Mama Africa.

 

She accepts that the structure of extra latrine offices and the arrangement of consumable wellsprings of water will shield their wellbeing and lift exchanging exercises the market.

"We know how significant sterilization is to our wellbeing so without a legitimate latrine office, we risk becoming ill," she regrets.

 

"We realize this spot is new, however we pay duty to the Gomoa East District Assembly thus, they ought to help us… more individuals will come and purchase from us assuming we have these offices," she adds.

 

Head of the Dominase Onion Traders, Chief Alhaji Ali Fuseini, affirmed the dealers are wrestling with various difficulties, including unfortunate disinfection which opens them to ailments like cholera or the runs.

 

"At the point when we came here, the land was uncovered, there was no shed like you are seeing now; we needed to do everything all alone," he says.

 

He thinks that the dealers needed to meet up and pay for their own boreholes to be dug as there was no wellspring of consumable water nearby.

 

 

 

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