THE three revenue agencies, the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Value Added Tax (VAT) Service, at the weekend, organised a two-hour health walk for their staff within the Koforidua municipality.
As part of the exercise, dubbed: “The health of the worker is the worth of the organisation”, 50 of the workers went through voluntary counselling and testing for HIV and AIDS and tuberculosis, sponsored by the German Technical Co-operation (GTZ ).
The event, which lasted for two and a half hours, took the workers through the centre of the town to the summit of the Obuotabri Mountains overlooking the New Juaben municipality.
Addressing the participants after the exercise, the National Focal Person of HIV and AIDS and Tuberculosis Project for the revenue agencies, Mr Yusuf Quainoo, said it was the desire of the Revenue Agencies Board to ensure that workers under its umbrella were healthy at all times to give their best at their workplaces.
He said that would enhance revenue mobilisation.
Prominent among the participants were Ms Judith Kollan, Ms Emelia Ofori, Nana Gyamfi and Ms Benedicta Amegavie, all HIV and AIDS focal persons of the revenue services.
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