ama.gov.gh MPHD Permits Ghana : Accra Metropolitan Assembly

Name of the Organization : Accra Metropolitan Assembly
Type of Facility : M.P.H.D. Permits
Country : Ghana

Official Website : http://www.ama.gov.gh/ama/page/5285/m-p-h-d–permits

AMA M.P.H.D. Permits

Information On Departmental Service Delivery By Metro Public Health Department :
The Environmental Health Department is responsible for the software aspects of Environment Health in the Districts and Sub Metros and provides the following services delivery, rules and processes to ensure a clean and healthy environment.

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Monitoring and Environmental Management Activities in the District :
** Providing Environmental Health and Sanitation profile for policy formulation
** Premises inspection
** Receiving and abatement or sanitary complaints
** Hygiene / Health Education
** Disposal of the dead
** Collaborating with Health Centers on Diseases Control
** Monitoring and reporting of all Waste Management issues in the District / Sub Metros
** Prosecuting sanitary offenders

Providing Environmental Health and Sanitation Profile for Policy Formulation :
Process :
** Survey
** Geographical boundary
** Population
** Identify socio-economic / cultural activities
** Identify stakeholders / opinion leaders
** Identify sanitary sites and other facilities e.g schools hospitals, churches etc
** Identify hard core sanitary problems existing within the community

Premises Inspection :
Process :
** Name and Address
** Inspection
** Identification of sanitary problems and abatement of nuisance

Methods :
** Health Education
** Issues of notices and court summons
** Prosecution
** Bench warrant execution
** Public places (markets, lorry parks, terminals)
** Sanitary facilities (abattoir, slaughter slabs, public toilets, public cemeteries)

Receiving and Abatement or Sanitary Complaints :
** Investigation
** Health Education
** Notices and Summons
** Prosecutions

Resources Needed :
** Statutory Notice books, summons books
** Fuel and transport
** Noise measuring and sound meters
** Vehicle emission detectors
** Stationery

Hygiene / Health Education Process ::

Process :
** Identification of Community Health problems and needs
** Set strategic objectives
** Design of program manuals, handbooks, brochures, leaflets etc
** Implementation and Evaluation

(a) When Death Occurs at Hospital :
A formal notice of death is provided by a Medical Practitioner who issues a medical cause of death in accordance with Sec. 18, Act 301 of Births and Deaths registry.

The body remains in the morgue until a member of the family brings to the registry of death, a copy of the medical cause of death, duly signed by a Medical Practitioner stating :
1. Name of Deceased
2. House No.
3. Age of Deceased
4. Cause of Death
5. Date and Time of Death
6. Disease Condition
7. Antecedent Cause
8. Other significant conditions contributing to the death, but not rated to the disease on condition causing it.

Having satisfied the above conditions, the cemetery management and Control Unit of the Metro Public Health Department which is responsible for issuing burial permit in the Accra Metropolis, will then issue issues permit to any member of the decease family who reported the death and may sign as an informant of the death. This is subject to Sec. 20 Act 301, Regulation 17 and 18

(b) Where Death Occurs at Home :
A family member calls a doctor or the last doctor the patient had seen. Report to the nearest District Police Station within the area where death had occurred.

The Police assist family member in acquiring a coronerâ””s report, after which a burial permit is issued subject to Sec .20 (2) Act 301, Regulation 17 and 18.

Disposal of the dead :
Process :
** Record keeping on deaths
** Sanitary disposal of the dead
** Ordinary burial
** Cremation
** Exhumation
** Disinfection

Management and Control of Cemeteries :
** Allocation of grave space
** Clearing of overgrowth of weds in cemeteries
** Enforcement of burial standards
** Enforcement of cemeteries and burial bye-laws

Resources Needed :
** Chemicals
** Standby Ambulance / Hearse

Collaborating with Health Centers on Diseases Control :
Process :
** Prioritization of disease cases in community e.g. In malaria
** Larviciding
** Hygiene Education (e.g. Distribution of mosquito nets)
** Enforcement of sanitary bye-laws

Monitoring and reporting of all Waste Management issues in the District/Sub Metros :
Process :
** Refuse collection and Disposal
** Drain Cleansing
** Liquid and Solid Waste disposal e.g supervision of drain cleansing, refuse and public toilet contractors
** Prosecution (enforcement of bye â”” laws)

Prosecuting Sanitary Offenders :
Process :
** Serving of statutory notices
** Serving of summons
** Prosecution
** Arrest of bench warrant

1.) Providing Back-up Support to the Lower Levels of the Assembly / Sub Metros :
** Training of Assembly members, opinion leaders in Sub Metros on health related issues
** Provided logistics / resources to other stakeholders

2.) Monitoring Large Industries in collaboration with other Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAâ””s) involved in environmental Management e.g EPA, WRC etc :
Premises Inspection :
** Name and Address of industry
** Inspection location, structure, facilities, products
** Health and safety of workers
** Identification of sanitary problems and abatement of nuisances
** Enforcement of bye-laws on industries

Methods :
** Health Education
** Issue of notices and court summons
** Prosecution
** Bench warrant arrest

3.) Serving on the Statutory Planning Committee and Site Advisory Board of the Assembly.

4.) Prosecutions effecting bench warrant arrest :
** Serving Statutory Notices
** Serving of Court Summons
** Prosecutions
** Effect Arrest

5.) Responsible over the Sanitation Gang (Sanigang) which is responsible for Pest Control, control of Stray Animals and Disposal of Unclaimed Corpses (where applicable) :
Pest Control :
** Survey
** Identification of breeding sites
** Disinfection
** Larviciding

Control of Stray Animals :
** Health Education, awareness creation on stray animals, bye-laws (AMA bye-laws in 1995 on control of cattle, sheep, goat etc)
** Arrest
** Impound
** Fine / Auction

Disposal of Unclaimed Corpse :
** Organizing Transport
** Ensure sanitary disposal of the dead

6.) Provide Monthly / Quarterly Yearly report to the appropriate quarters for decision making.

Certification of Food Handlers :
Food Handlers are to contact the staff of Metro Public Health Department to receive specimen bottle to present their stool for laboratory examination. The examination is to investigate for pathogenic micro-organisms by means of stool culture.

The Handlers are issued with certificate when they are found to be fit. Those found to be unfit are directed for treatment.

After two weeks they present their stool for re-examination and thereafter the handler is issued with medical health certificate to confirm fitness to handle food for public consumption.

For those who pass the examination the first time, the process takes a week while those who have to undergo the examination twice or re-examination, the process takes a month for certification to be complete.

Acquisition of AMA Commercial Drivers Licenses Assembly

All commercial drivers are to acquire AMA commercial driverâ””s license before operating in the Metropolis

Steps to the Acquisition of Accra Metropolitan Assembly Commercial Drivers License :
Step 1 :
Drivers are to provide original professional or original Temporary driving License with Classifications A, B, C, D, and F

Step 2 :
Drivers Residential Address (House Number)

Note 1 :
Professional or Temporary driving licenses not Renewed, Expired, fake, photocopies and classifications A and E do not qualify a driver to acquire Accra Metropolitan Assembly commercial Drivers license.

Note 2 :
Drivers are to provide working permit when original professional or Temporary Driving license indicates Foreign Nationality.

Note 3 :
For further information please contact :
The Head Taxi Section
0302663947 Extensions 401