Over a hundred schools in the Asokore Mampong Municipality in the Ashanti Region have undergone disinfection ahead of October 5 re-opening of schools for second year student’s in Junoir High schools and some from basic schools.
The beneficiary institutions included both public and private schools scattered across the municipality and is in line with President Nana Akufo-Addo’s directive for some sections of schools to return to school to complete the academic calendar as government continues to look safer ways to reopen school’s fully by the beginning of 2021.
The disinfection exercise is also to ensure that no student or staff upon the academic work contract the deadly corona virus.
The exercise started in the early hours of friday in all schools across the length and breath of the Asokore Mampong Municipality and took the team to schools like Kumasi Academy, Ibadur Rahman SHS, Parkoso SHS, Parkoso R/C Basic school, SOS Children’s Village, the Asokore Mampong Cluster of Schools, among several others.
The Metro Director of Education for the Asokore Mampong Municipality, Hajia Katoumi Nantogomah Attah in an interview with the media heaped praises on government and Zoomlion Ghana Limited for embarking on the 3rd phase of the excercise which according to her has gone a long way to curb the spread of the Corona Virus outbreak in the municipality and the country as a whole.
She recommend a regularly disinfection of schools in the country to prevent not only covid 19 but diseases and illnesses.
Headmaster of Kumasi Academy, Samuel Kwame Gato told the media how previous phase of the exercise has been successful and beneficial to the the school.
He disclosed that the school has set up a task force to ensure strict adherence to the Covid 19 protocols.
Mr. Gato also joined calls by other Headmasters for a regular disinfection of the schools, assuring both students and parents of their safety when Schools reopen.
Program Director of SOS Village, Kumasi, Bernard Amoako was confident that with the support from government and Zoomlion Ghana Limited, the school is in good sterd to protect both and staff on campus.
Asante Regional General Manager of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Philip Yeboah Asante, disclosed that over 4900 basic and about 300 hundred Senior High schools benefited from the excercise. He noted that they believe the exercise will help in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Government indicated that the ongoing exercise to disinfect Senior High Schools in the country is targeted at ridding buildings and facilities of rodents, bedbugs and other insects.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited is set to fumigate all second-cycle educational institutions in the country.
Authorities say they are taking advantage of the absence of students to carry out the exercise at the various schools.
The ministry of local government and Rural Development in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana limited began a nationwide disinfection exercise in schools, markets, churches and all public spaces across all regions in the country, following the World Health Organisation’s acknowledgment that airborne transmission of the coronavirus may occur.
In line with continued measures to halt spread of the virus, Ghana’s government has taken the initiative to disinfect all public spaces and properties around the country. The first phase of the exercise began in the disease’s early stages – which included selected public properties including airports, public universities and some markets.
