NADMO Seeks More Support For Schools, Health Centres

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in Bole in Northern Region says it is working to get some relief items for victims of Monday’s storm.

Samuel Kipo told Joy News many affected people have been trooping into their office to register for assistance.

“The numbers are so great for us to manage so we are appealing to benevolent individuals and organisations to come to our aid to enable us to help the affected people and fix schools and hospitals,” he pleaded.

Schools have been flooded, hospitals left in deplorable situations, farms destroyed and over a thousand people have been displaced in Bole in the Northen Region.

This is the aftermath of a storm that hit the town on Monday night leaving a majority of basic school pupils affected.

Ten classrooms of the Krobasu Basic School have their entire roof ripped off, bringing teaching and learning to a halt.

Other public and private buildings have also been affected destroying properties running into thousands of cedis and rendering many homeless.

According to Joy News' Rafiq Salam, the most hit area is Zampi in the Koropa electoral area.

The Bole District National Coordinator Kipe Sulemana said close to 762 students are out of school because their classrooms have been ripped off.

The head teacher of the Krobasu Basic School, Abdulai Adams spoke of some of the challenges the school is encountering.

“We do not have a place to sit and learn again but we want to continue with teaching and learning. We are thinking of getting some of the students together somewhere so we can get them to learn,” he said.

He said they have appealed to the District Chief Executive (DCE) to use the Wa Community Centre for teaching and learning to continue temporarily.

Meanwhile, the only health centre in the area has also been left in a deplorable situation.

The Outpatient Department (OPD), the disease control room and the detention ward were the worst affected.