Youths employed under NYEP mark second milestone

SOME Personnel of the Zoomlion Ghana Limited under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) celebrated the second anniversary of the programme with a massive clean-up campaign at seven hospitals in Accra.
The hospitals are the Accra Psychiatric and Usher Fort hospitals, Kaneshie and Mamobi Polyclinics, La General Hospital, Mamprobi Polyclinic and the Achimota Hospital.
About 80 of the personnel from Zoomlion and other modules of the NYEP such as health extension officers were deployed to each hospital to take part in the clean-up campaign.
The Accra Zonal Supervisor of Zoomlion, Mr Robert Coleman, told the Daily Graphic during the exercise that the hospitals were chosen because the company was convinced that health centres should be the epitome of good sanitation.
He said the exercise was to show appreciation to and support for the NYEP in its two years of existence, with the belief that the programme would be maintained after the December 2008 and other national elections.
He said the exercise was a step in the right direction because “if people go to the hospitals to get healed and cured from their diseases, it is imperative that the hospitals must remain as clean as possible".
Mr Coleman said the company had deployed close to 500 personnel to the seven hospitals and equipped them with the necessary logistics to ensure that the exercise was carried out effectively and efficiently.
The Principal Nursing Officer at the Kaneshie Polyclinic, Mrs Irene Aryee, commended the personnel and Zoomlion for the initiative and added that the onus now lay on Ghanaians to have a change of attitude towards sanitation so that the full effects of the work of Zoomlion could be felt in the country.
She entreated all Ghanaians to help in the maintenance of good sanitation for a healthy and better life.
The NYEP since its establishment two years ago has employed about 108,000 Ghanaian youth in various occupational disciplines.