Crisis management company LCB Worldwide Ghana Limited has partnered with the Ghana Health Service to undertake a large-scale fumigation exercise across key public spaces in Accra as part of efforts to prevent disease outbreaks during the rainy season.
The exercise, held on Saturday, July 11, 2026, coincided with the National General Cleaning Exercise announced by President John Dramani Mahama following the recent widespread flooding that affected many parts of the country.
Organised under LCB Worldwide Ghana’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme, the initiative focused on markets, transport terminals, and other public areas within the Korle Klottey Municipality in the Greater Accra Region. The exercise is intended to reduce the risk of sanitation-related diseases that often emerge during the rainy season.
Speaking during the exercise, the company’s Lead for Partnerships and Programmes, Fiifi Buabeng-Baiden, reaffirmed LCB Worldwide Ghana’s commitment to initiatives that improve the well-being of Ghanaians.
“Our partnership with the Ghana Health Service means that we are interested in whatever the Ghana Health Service is interested in. And what the Ghana Health Service’s mandate is to provide the facilities for the comprehensive public safety of the country. So the Ghana Health Service has found it right, and as part of its measures to promote public safety and security to disinfect and fumigate markets every possible hotspot for the spread of disease like cholera, malaria and typhoid to ensure that the country is safe and that is what we are here to support them in, as part of our corporate social responsibility,” he said.
He added: “Indeed, this is not the first time we’re carrying out such an exercise. As you may be aware, we have done this for schools in the past, we have done market centres across the country and we have done Ministries, Departments and Agencies. The list is endless. We came out strongly during the COVID period and disinfected very many places as our contribution towards the fight against the pandemic”.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, described the exercise as a proactive intervention designed to prevent disease outbreaks before they occur.
“Fortunately as I talk today, we haven’t recorded any cholera outbreak. But we don’t need to have it before we take actions. We need to prevent it because it is extremely expensive to treat people when there is an outbreak. People won’t go to work, some might lose their lives, the hospitals become choked and the doctors and nurses become overwhelmed while needing to buy medication and get them places to sleep,” he said.
The Municipal Chief Executive for Korle Klottey, Alfred Allotey-Gaisie, commended the initiative and stressed that sustaining the benefits of such exercises would require the active participation of residents, traders, and transport operators in maintaining clean surroundings.
“We won’t just start and stop. There are series of fumigations we have to do around the municipality. The Tema Station market is not the only place that is affected. We have Odawna, Osu, and other places. We are very grateful for the help we are getting from LCB and Ghana Health Service,” he said.
