Togbega Gabusu VII, Paramount Chief of the Gbi Traditional Area, led the Gbi Senior High Sec/Tech School in a clean-up exercise at Hohoe over the weekend.
They cleared silt from gutters, cleared weedy areas and burnt piles of rubbish in a three-hour exercise.
Togbega Gabusu told the Daily Graphic during the exercise that it was his initiative to help inculcate in the people the need to keep the environment clean to keep out mosquitoes.
He said it was a worry to him that people should have malaria just because they did not keep their environment clean.
Togbega, who is the President of the Volta Region House of Chiefs, used the occasion to urge all to keep their environment clean if they wanted to remain healthy.
The Hohoe District Health Promotion and Education officer, Mr Kwami Doe, spoke to the students on malaria, how it was contracted and its effects on the citizenry.
He told them that only mosquito bite caused malaria so they should do everything to avoid it.
He said malaria could have a serious effect on academic work and asked the students to do everything to avoid the disease.
“Your parents too, when they have the disease, they will suffer, they cannot go to work, reducing earnings for the family but have to look for money to buy medications,” he noted
He dispelled some misconceptions about malaria, such as some people suffering from malaria because they worked too hard in the sun.
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