title: Catering personnel and environmental health activities in Malumfashi and Samaru-Zaria Northern Nigeria.
abstract: A three month part-time training course in the basic principles of environmental health programmes with specific emphasis on practical food sanitation and control measures for food borne diseases, was organised for 79 members of the catering staff, of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Samaru-Zaria and Malumfashi, Northern Nigeria. The aims of the course were to instil in the participants, a new approach to food hygiene with a view to promoting proper catering qualities and also preventing or minimising the problems of the diarrhoeal diseases. The results, of the evaluation of the course contents and laboratory exercises are analysed and discussed. With the shortage and uneven distribution of medical and health manpower in Nigeria, all available staff in health and allied fields must be properly trained and utilised maximally in our fight against diseases and ignorance, whether such staff are hospital or community based.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004782:Environmental Health; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control; D005511:Food Handling; D005521:Food Service, Hospital; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D009549:Nigeria; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education*