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General News of Sunday, March 24, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-03-24
About 60 people were confirmed dead in the accident
The Government has indicated that it is prepared to bear the medical bills of the victims of last Friday's accident in Ampomakrom in the South Kintampo district of the Bono Est region.
Evans Opoku Bobbie, Acting Minister for the East Bono area, revealed this information when he visited the victims of the accident being treated at Kintampo South District Hospital to Jema.
Victims receiving care at Holy Family Hospital in Techiman as well as in other health facilities will benefit from similar government support.
Speaking to Citi News, Evans Opoku Bobbie, Acting Minister for the Bono East area, revealed that the government had already made a financial commitment to the treatment of surviving victims.
"The government will pay the costs of treatment until they are released. We will cover the costs of treating everyone here and those who have been transferred to other hospitals. We left some money here in Jaman to take good care of those who are undergoing treatment. We will visit those of others and do the same thing. "
About 60 people were confirmed dead in the accident involving a VVIP Kia bus with GT 3915-17 registration number traveling from Garu in the upper East region to Kumasi and a Grandbird bus with the registration number GT 5694-18 from Accra to Bolgantaga. also in the Far East region.
About 50 others also suffered various types of injuries.
Mbad burial held for 39 burned bodies
In the meantime, a mbadive funeral was held for 39 people who died in the bloody Friday crash in the Techiman-Kintampo accident in the Bono East area.
The burial, according to the authorities, was necessary because the bodies of the victims were burned without any recognition.
He was under the surveillance of members of the Ghana Police Service, local authorities, religious leaders and traditional chiefs of the Jema Cemetery.
Relatives of unidentified persons involved in the fatal accident were also present.
DSP Ofori Boateng, police commander of South Kintampo District, told Citi News that the decision to bury the burned bodies had been made in consultation with relevant stakeholders.
"Given the concerns of the stakeholders, they accepted and the bodies were buried in a mbad grave here in Jaman. People who have not heard from their relatives and who have left Accra by VVIP bus can travel to Jaman to identify them among other bodies. "
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