Cancer: Abia Govt health officials inspect abattoirs, caution butchers

The environmental health officers, who arrived in giant numbers, inspected the supplies getting used for roasting of animal pores and skin and hides.

During the go to, the environmental officers mentioned using tyres in roasting animal hides and skins was a contributing issue to the rising instances of most cancers and another illnesses among the many folks.

The health authority employees additional reminded the butchers that the strategy of utilizing tyres had been abolished due to its health implications.

In a associated growth, the enforcement workforce of the health division has sealed two premises at Amucha Street and Nise Street in Aba for permitting their septic tank to be open and overflowing with waste.

An official assertion from the Aba South Local Government Health Authority mentioned that a number of the occupants have been arrested and arraigned at environmental sanitation court docket for polluting the general public area and endangering folks’s health.

“There was a filled-up septic tank resulting in the overflowing of excreta wastes within the yard area,” the Aba South LGA mentioned.