A nurse at the Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Kumasi, Mrs. Emelia Adjei Mensah has advised the general public during an interview on the Rite Morning Ride show on how, where, when and also what food one should eat. She stated that eating unhygienic foods causes a lot of sicknesses in the human system. She then cautioned the public to eat hygienic foods which can help the body to grow well and also function well.
Buying food from unhygienic places such as those selling by the roadside, choked gutters, where unclean waste bins are kept and also near by a public toilet. Mostly, people with uncovered hair, long finger nails and those who also talk a lot while selling do bring harmful and dangerous sicknesses into the human system. These are the people who we must stay away from. Such foods are easily contaminated.
Most sellers do not care about our health but rather think of their money forgetting that all these causes a lot of sicknesses and infections in the body as well. She added to it that, majority of the sellers do not keep their selves clean and neat. However, this can be noticed when one looks at the surrounding, the dressing, the fingernails, the hair and even the teeth of the vendor as she gasp.
She also made it known that, restaurants are the safest and most hygienic places to eat and also buy foods but because the majority cannot afford the price of the food there, they would rather prefer to go to the roadside.
She pleaded with the small joint food vendors to keep their surroundings and foods hygienic and safe because that’s the only food most Ghanaians can afford.
She concluded that eating foods which are unhygienic and unsafe can damage the human system and also bring harmful infections such as diarrhea, cholera and even typhoid fever. These are the major diseases that are common in the various hospitals we attend.
Aside the roadside foods, in our various homes and houses, one must eat hot food and even wash fruits and vegetables we purchase from the market. It must be washed with clean water with salt. Leaving dishes after eating for the next day to wash attract a lot of inserts into the kitchen, our uncovered dustbins also brings cockroaches, bad odor, and flies.
Pounding of fufu is also one way of contaminating our foods in our homes, in this case when the person pounding the fufu sweats a lot and do not clean the sweat, it drops into the fufu and even talking whiles cooking.
