FUMIGATION vs SANITATION

Otume,

That’s ‘hello’ in Degema language of Rivers State, Nigeria. Hope you had a fantastic Easter. I had some fun-relaxed and equally did some personal tasks. Welcome to the last week in March 2016. Time flies so fast. The first quarter of 2016 is gradually coming to an end; all thanks to God for the power to attain heights so far this year and also for good health.

There was once a need for fumigation because of rats in a particular household. When everything was finally set for the fumigation to take place; the resident of the apartment called the man who was to do the fumigation and asked him, ‘I hope that we would have no incident of rat destroying our property after this exercise.’ The man who would do the fumigation smiled and replied, ‘Sir, this exercise will kill all the rats inside but does not stop other rats from intruding. What you have to do is to improve on your sanitation of the apartment.’ Let’s discuss fumigation and sanitation.

Fumigation is the time when you do a holistic overhaul of your environment to get rid of rodents and pests that are harmful to residents of a particular apartment. Fumigation usually demands for a little space from the resident so that the offensive odour of the chemicals used can diffuse before their return. Let’s narrow, it down a bit, fumigation can also be a review of one’s work and tasks at work. There are times when past atrocities are unveiled after thorough investigation. It can also be a time when one decides to change some nasty habits that would later in life after one’s health negatively.

Sanitation is a continuous effort at ensuring that the environment is always clean. It must be noted that rodents and pests thrive in dirty environments. If one painfully cleans the environment at all times, there would be limited outbreak of diseases for example Lassa fever, cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery. If this would be narrowed down a little also, there is a need to always ensure that your little space from the school to the office; from the church to the car is always kept clean. This will impact positively on the damage that one suffers when one is careless or carefree about the environment.

Let’s wind it up today; we have a choice to keep sanitizing our environment than always waiting for the next fumigation exercise that does not guarantee total freedom from the rodents and pests. It is much cheaper to keep a good sanitation habit than to keep expending money on fumigation.

I will prefer to maintain high sanitation standard rather than to be a customer to the fumigation expert.

Enjoy your week

xoxoxo

Olutayo