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20.10.2018 Social News

Birim North NADMO celebrates international day for Disaster reduction

By GNA
Birim North NADMO celebrates international day for Disaster reduction
20.10.2018 LISTEN

The Birim North District Chief Executive (DCE) Mr. Raymond Nana Damptey, has urged parents to advise their children against the use of tramadol and other illicit drugs as that could destroy their future.

Nana Damptey gave the advice during the climax of a week-long celebration of the 'International Day for Disaster Reduction'' by the Birim North District National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) at Hweakwae near New Abirem in the Eastern Region.

It was on the theme "Reducing the Economic Loss of Disasters".

For the first nine months of this year, the Acting District Director of NADMO, Ms. Ivy Grace Dokuah said, 1,073 victims were affected by rainstorms, floods and fire outbreaks.

Fifteen major rainstorms Ms. Dokuah said were recorded within the period, while two fire disasters also occurred.

Ms Dokuah encouraged community members to plant trees in their towns and villages to provide shade and at the same time serve as windbreaks to minimise the effect of rain and storms.

Apart from New Abirem, where the people were sensitised by NADMO to plant trees in the town and those living in flood-prone areas to move to higher grounds during the rainy season, officials from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) educated the people on domestic and bush fire prevention.

Staff from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) were also on hand to sensitise the youth on the dangers of using tramadol, smoking of marijuana or '' wee'' and indulging in other illicit drugs.

Officials from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) talked to farmers on the fall army Worm and advised them to promptly report the slightest suspicion of the worm on their farms for assistance.

Ms Dokuah, made an appeal to Newmont (Akyem) for a double-cabin pick-up to assist the organisation in its operational duties to make prompt assessment during disasters to determine the type of assistance that could be offered to victims.

She said it would also facilitate their movement into the communities to carry out effective sensitization programmesand convey relief items from the Regional Office at Koforidua for distribution to disaster victims.

Nana Osei Agyemang Prempeh II, the Chief of Hweakwae who chaired the function promised to collaborate with NADMO to ensure disaster reduction in the district.

The week-long celebration also took NADMO to communities like Amuana Praso and Oworamoa where similar sensitisation programmes took place. GNA

By Hayford O-Akrofi, GNA

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