Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Re: Bird flu: Ghana on high alert
Tema Farmers Compensated for Poultry Destruction
Posted on: Monday, May 21, 2007
By Rachel Efua Eduah
THE DEPUTY Minister of Agriculture in charge of livestock, Anna Nyamekye, has told farmers that the government will not pay any compensation to farmers who refuse to observe bio-security on their farms.
She said strict bio-security measures would prevent the farms from being contaminated and check a further spread of the avian-flu virus. Mrs. Nyamekye said this when she paid the much- awaited compensation to the first six farmers whose birds and eggs were destroyed by the Avian Flu Task Force in Government?s bid to contain the disease in the Tema metropolis.
The deputy minister said farmers should be free to report the death of their birds to the Veterinary Services Department for early detection of the disease on any farm. She stressed that the government will always compensate any farmer whose poultry or products are destroyed by the task force.
So far ?429,000,000 has been paid to the six farmers, who had between ?2,000,000 and ?154,000 000 for the least and the highest respectively.
Present at the function were the FAO Bird flu representative Dr. Sar, the Tema MCE, David Annan; the head of the Veterinary Services Departmen, Dr. Mensa Agyen-Frimpong; the director of MOFA, Tema, Theo Osei-Owusu and the Municipal Veterinary officer Dr. Darlington Owusu.
In another development, a two-day seminar has been organized by USAID for the Bird Flu Task Force and all the members of the Veterinary Services Department in the Greater Accra region, as well as the members of the TMA Environmental Health Task Force to up grade their knowledge in the correct use of the personal protective equipment as well as how to properly decontaminate personnel farms and equipment.
Ms Alex Hinniher, the resource person, advised the task force personnel who are the frontliners in the fight against the avian flu disease, to properly cloth themselves to avoid being infected as well as infecting other people.
Dr. Philippe, E.U vet stationed in Ghana, also admonished the staff to properly wash and disinfect their hands and clothing, since the virus is mostly transferred by humans moving from a contaminated zone to a clean one.
http://www.theheritagenews.com/article.asp?id=395
Tema Farmers Compensated for Poultry Destruction
Posted on: Monday, May 21, 2007
By Rachel Efua Eduah
THE DEPUTY Minister of Agriculture in charge of livestock, Anna Nyamekye, has told farmers that the government will not pay any compensation to farmers who refuse to observe bio-security on their farms.
She said strict bio-security measures would prevent the farms from being contaminated and check a further spread of the avian-flu virus. Mrs. Nyamekye said this when she paid the much- awaited compensation to the first six farmers whose birds and eggs were destroyed by the Avian Flu Task Force in Government?s bid to contain the disease in the Tema metropolis.
The deputy minister said farmers should be free to report the death of their birds to the Veterinary Services Department for early detection of the disease on any farm. She stressed that the government will always compensate any farmer whose poultry or products are destroyed by the task force.
So far ?429,000,000 has been paid to the six farmers, who had between ?2,000,000 and ?154,000 000 for the least and the highest respectively.
Present at the function were the FAO Bird flu representative Dr. Sar, the Tema MCE, David Annan; the head of the Veterinary Services Departmen, Dr. Mensa Agyen-Frimpong; the director of MOFA, Tema, Theo Osei-Owusu and the Municipal Veterinary officer Dr. Darlington Owusu.
In another development, a two-day seminar has been organized by USAID for the Bird Flu Task Force and all the members of the Veterinary Services Department in the Greater Accra region, as well as the members of the TMA Environmental Health Task Force to up grade their knowledge in the correct use of the personal protective equipment as well as how to properly decontaminate personnel farms and equipment.
Ms Alex Hinniher, the resource person, advised the task force personnel who are the frontliners in the fight against the avian flu disease, to properly cloth themselves to avoid being infected as well as infecting other people.
Dr. Philippe, E.U vet stationed in Ghana, also admonished the staff to properly wash and disinfect their hands and clothing, since the virus is mostly transferred by humans moving from a contaminated zone to a clean one.
http://www.theheritagenews.com/article.asp?id=395