Lives Of Nkwankwanta SHS Rainstorm Casualty Students On The Admission Are Stable And Normal Dormaa West DCE Declares
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Dormaa West District Assembly in the Bono Region, Mr Francis Kwadwo Oppong, has stated that the lives condition of the twenty-five (25) students of Nkwankwanta Senior High School (SHS) who were hospitalised at Dormaa West District Hospital after being fainted during the heavy rainstorm which has caused severe havoc in the district on Thursday, March 3, 2022, were stable and normal.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Dormaa West District Assembly in the Bono Region, Mr Francis Kwadwo Oppong, has stated that the lives condition of the twenty-five (25) students of Nkwankwanta Senior High School (SHS) who were hospitalised at Dormaa West District Hospital after being fainted during the heavy rainstorm which has caused severe havoc in the district on Thursday, March 3, 2022, were stable and normal.
According to the DCE, when the Bono Regional Minister, Mrs Justina Owusu-Banahene (aka Awo) together with the Bono Regional Acting Director of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mrs Ivy Owusu Asantewa, Dormaa District National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) officials and the Dormaa West District Education Director visited the hospital on Friday, March 4, 2022, to have first-hand information about the condition of the affected students on the admission, the Medical Officer in charge of the facility told the Minister and her entourages that he ready to discharge about twenty-one (21) students out of the total twenty- five (25) students on the admission.
He pointed out that the medical officer stated categorically that the rest of the four students on the admission were still responding to the medical treatments although their lives condition are normal.
Mr Oppong disclosed these in an interview with Soireenews.com to give details update about the current living conditions of the people in Nkwankwanta after the rainstorm has destroyed their properties and injured some residents including students of the Nkwankwan SHS on Thursday, March 3, 2022.
The DCE's explanations to the issue come to light after the Bono Regional Minister together with the Bono Regional Acting Director of Ghana Education Service (GES) joined him (Mr Opong), Dormaa District National Disaster Management Organisation officials and the Dormaa West District Education Director to visit some affected places in Nkrankwanta.
On Thursday, March 3, 2022, a heavy downpour visited Nkrankwanta township causing roofs rip-off at Nkrankwanta Senior High School, Nkrankwanta D/A JHS and individual houses in the township.
The incident caused about 25 students being fainted and a female teacher was rushed to the Dormaa West District Hospital.
At the Nkrankwanta Senior High School, the Minister, Mrs Justina solidarized with the students and the staff and assured them government swift intervention in ensuring the reroof of the affected classroom blocks for effective teaching and learning in the school.
The Minister with the DCE and the education director visited the Nkrankwanta District Hospital where the affected students were rushed to. They also visited the Nkrankwanta D/A JHS.
They encouraged the students not to be scared by the incident but to take their education seriously as the government was ready to renovate the school.
The team also visited some affected individual houses to see how the residents were faring. The residents requested that government come to their aid as life was unbearable.
Lastly, they visited Osikani FM 99.7 MHz in Nkrankwanta where the station's mast had been destroyed by the rainstorm.
Speaking further, the DCE noted that Mr Oppong stated that the government through the Assembly has put in place human-centred measures to ensure that the properties and lives of the people in Nkwankwanta who were affected in the Thursday rainstorm were protected.
He mentioned that the officials of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) are still accessing and taking the inventories of the properties which were affected and that after they would find a to help the victims.
He said the Bono Regional Minister and her entourage went round to the houses of the victims to console the victims including the students and the authorities of both Junior and Senior High Schools of Nkwankwanta.
He noted that the minister led by Dormaa West Municipal Director of NADMO and some of the senior staff of the Assembly including him conducted the search of the areas of the disaster to first-hand information about the issue and see the next line of action to be taken to support the victims.
The DCE pointed out that the Bono Regional Minister assured his readiness to collaborate with the officials of DADMO, Dormaa West Municipal Assembly to come to the aid of the victims.
"We have taken inventory of some of the properties which have been destroyed through the disaster. This is because the destructions caused by the disaster are pretty and we could not be finished taking the records of them, so we would be going back to the community on Tuesday, March 8, 2021, to have accessed all and record them accordingly."
