{"id":1166,"date":"2020-07-13T07:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T07:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:36:53","slug":"wenchi-assembly-partners-media-to-distribute-ppes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wenchi-assembly-partners-media-to-distribute-ppes\/","title":{"rendered":"WENCHI ASSEMBLY PARTNERS MEDIA TO DISTRIBUTE PPEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 4.5pt 0in 4.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e21;\">In the wake of the novel Corona virus, the Wenchi Municipal Assembly, in collaboration with all Wenchi based Radio Stations has distributed Face Masks to the general public to help fight the menace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 4.5pt 0in 4.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e21;\">The move was to make Face Masks more accessible and affo<span class=\"textexposedshow\">rdable <\/span>and inculcate in the public the habit of using Face Masks as part of their routine activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e21;\">Presenting the items on behalf of the Municipal Assembly, the Municipal Information Officer in charge of Public &amp; Media Relations Stanick Sofel Amuzu Kpodo noted that apart from over 8, 000 Face Masks being distributed, the Assembly had rolled out numerous policies and programmes to contain and prevent spread of the disease. Some of these measures include Public Education\/Sensitization, distribution of Veronica Buckets with other PPEs, creation of multiple satellite markets, creation of Isolation Centres, mass fumigation\/disinfection of public places, amongst others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1168\" src=\"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MEDIA-PPEs-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MEDIA-PPEs-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MEDIA-PPEs-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MEDIA-PPEs.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 4.5pt 0in 4.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e21;\">The Public Affairs Director hinted that the Municipal Directorate of the Information Services Department (ISD) has designed a new methodology and approach as part of its sensitization campaign programmes to reach out to the general public taking into consideration their attitude and busy schedules. The yet-to-be out doored programmes are in partnership with the Media and other stakeholders to intensify education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 4.5pt 0in 4.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e21;\">He assured that the joint Public Health Emergency Committee (PHEC) and the Security Council (MUSEC) of Municipal Assembly would continually prioritize the health and security needs of the people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 4.5pt 0in 4.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e21;\">He urged all to continuously adhere to the COVID-19 protocols.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 4.5pt 0in 4.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #1c1e21;\">Credit: Information Services Department (ISD), Wenchi.<br \/>\nBy: Stanick Sofel Amuzu Kpodo\/13th Jul 2020<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the novel Corona virus, the Wenchi Municipal Assembly, in collaboration with all Wenchi based Radio Stations has distributed Face Masks to the general public to help fight the menace. The move was to make Face Masks more accessible and affordable and inculcate in the public the habit of using Face Masks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}