Hygiene and Sanitation: Hysacam Receives100 New Trucks Ahead of the 2022 AFCON

To increase needs of increasingly demanding communities, Hygiene and Health in Camroon (Hysacam) has acquired 100 new brand trucks to improve on the cleanliness of cities hosting the 2022 AFCON to be played in Cameroon.

The presentation framework for the new equipment took place recently at Besseke, a neighborhood at Bonabéri in Douala. The 100 trucks are meant for the fight against insalubrity and the proliferation of waste in urban areas. This is precisely a set of equipment made up of mechanical sweepers, Movie cranes, individual door-to-door collection trucks “City of Paris”, trunk racks, Ampliroll Ampliroll T30, compaction skips (16m3 and 21m3), compaction skips with hoist (23m3).

Stamped “On the road to AFCON”, the new trucks will assist “to ensure the cleanliness of cities at a time when Cameroon is preparing to host a major sporting event, the AFCON Total Energies 2021. Hysacam is ready to take up this challenge, ready to fulfill its mission of making cities clean on a daily basis,” according to Michel Ngapanoun, the CEO of Hysacam.

They will also make it possible to improve the frequency of passage of collection trucks in the neighborhoods, to set up the meeting of the housewife, to keep the city’s arteries clean during 2022 AFCON, and to considerably reduce the heaps of garbage in cities and towns.

“These new trucks integrate the transfer centers, that is to say very small carriers which will collect garbage in the cities, bring back to the transfer centers and the latter will transfer to the waste treatment centers,” explains Michel Ngapanoun.

Acquired at Fcfa12 billion, this new endowment is the result of a partnership between the Urban Community of Douala (CUD), Hysacam, and Cami Motors which ensured the delivery of 100 machines.

With these new rolling machines, Hysacam now has a total of 600 trucks specializing in cleaning and 52 heavy trucks specialized in the treatment of household waste. This endowment is welcomed by the CUD, which struggles to absorb all the household waste in the city. Indeed, the city of Douala produces an average of 2,500 tonnes of waste per day, but has an absorption or removal capacity of between 1,500 and 1,700 tones/day, or a gap of 800 to 1000 tones per day.

The partnership between the CUD and Hysacam through this new acquisition, “makes it possible to efficiently collect waste even in the most difficult districts,” rejoices the mayor of Douala.

Roger Mbassa Ndine hopes that beyond the actions carried out by Hysacam, there will be “a collective and individual awareness to keep our cities clean.” Also, he invites the populations to use more garbage bins instead of drains to keep Douala clean and pleasant before, during and after the AFCON.

Ingrid KENGNE