Kumasi, Aug. 8, GNA - Artisans and Estate Managers of the Ghana Health Service have been asked to develop good maintenance culture to ensure that equipment and logistics under their care function at all time and last longer.

Mrs Elvina Owusu-Afriyie, Estate Manager of the Kumasi South Hospital, who gave the advice, noted that preventive maintenance was cheaper than corrective maintenance.

She was speaking at the closing of a three-day environmental sanitation and preventive monitoring workshop, organised by the Ghana Health Service and sponsored jointly by the Estate Management Unit of the Service and DANIDA for 30 orderlies and ward assistants from the Kumasi South Hospital.

Mrs Owusu-Afriyie said all artisans working with hospitals would soon be trained in the regular maintenance of equipment and logistics to enable them to monitor and maintain equipment and facilities better at these places.