Yako, The medical center with surgical branch of Yako (CMA) organized last Thursday, within the walls of the institution, a health day in order to offer a healthier environment to users as well as to staff caregiver.
Equipped with shovels, household gangs, rakes and bibs, it is a medical staff strongly mobilized and committed to making their work environment healthier who responded to the call of the interim chief medical officer of the Yako health district ( MCD), Dr Mamadi Ouédraogo, this Thursday, February 17, 2022 in Yako.
Called “operation zero plastic bag”, the initiative aimed, according to the first manager of the CMA, to make the working environment cleaner for the nursing staff and especially for the users.
During the operation, the health workers thoroughly cleaned the places littered with plastic bags and other types of rubbish encountered along the way to put a brighter face on the service.
To facilitate the activity, at least twenty bins were mobilized for the occasion.
Garbage cans that have made it possible to further strengthen the device used to unload the garbage already collected on the site.
“Through the zero plastic bag operation, we want to set an example for those accompanying patients and then invite them to observe more responsible eco-citizen behavior in waste management in this environment with a high attendance rate,” said Dr Ouédraogo. .
For the doctor, offering good quality patient care could also depend on cleaning up the working environment of the nursing staff.
Aware also that his staff alone cannot continuously collect garbage and clean up the service, Dr. Ouédraogo therefore invited the entire population of the Province of Passoré to help the health workers, by especially not throwing garbage and any other object that can give a less rosy image to this environment.
“If the environment is polluted, it is quite obvious that the care we are going to offer to our users will fall short of the users’ expectations,” assumed Dr Ouédraogo.
To the populations, he invited them to make more use of the garbage cans placed everywhere in the service.
With a view to making the CMA permanently healthy, the MCD wishes to involve all the populations of Yako in the next sanitation operations in this environment, which constitutes the mother of the sixty health facilities in the province of Passoré.
Source: Burkina Information Agency