KMA donates PPE to schools

Regional news for Monday, March 15, 2021

Source: GNA

03/15/2021

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has donated quantities of personal protective equipment to some selected educational institutions to help fight the spread of the coronavirus in schools.

The items, which included 400 boxes of hand sanitizers and 16,000 pieces of nasal masks, were donated as part of the assembly’s Covid-19 PPE distribution program.

Some of the beneficiary educational institutions were Wesley College of Education, Afua Serwaa Kobi, Duase M / A, Asem M / A, Amakom-Abrotia M / A, Buokrom ‘E’ M / A, Adiebeba and Yaa Achiaa Basic Schools .

The others were State Experimental, Suntreso-Patase, Akosa M / A, State Boys, Adumanu, St. Cyprian’s’ A ‘and’ B ‘, Al-Tawheed Islamic and KO’ A ‘,’ B ‘and’ base schools VS’. .

Mr. Osei Assibey-Antwi, the Head of the Metropolitan Executive (MCE), presenting the items at a ceremony in Kumasi, said the Assembly received a total of 2,400 boxes of hand sanitizers and 66,000 masks to distribute to certain identifiable groups and institutions to help fight the covid-19 pandemic.

Groups include media institutions, traders, transport operators, security personnel and schools.

MCE said the presentation to educational institutions was aimed at helping students and pupils in beneficiary schools protect themselves against the virus.

Ghana had, as of February this year, recorded a total of 556 cases of COVID-19 in more than 130 schools across the country since schools reopened in mid-January.

Mr Assibey-Antwi said the Assembly was working closely with the Metropolitan Education Directorate and the Ghana Health Service to ensure that all covid-19 preventive protocols were strictly enforced in all schools. of the metropolis.

He advised pupils and students to take personal hygiene seriously in the face of the pervasive threats posed by the pandemic.

Mr. David Oppong, Metropolitan Director of Education, said that before the schools reopened, the Assembly had assisted in the fumigation of all educational institutions in the metropolis.

The exercise, in addition to providing sanitary buckets, disinfectants, nasal masks, tissue papers and infrared thermometers, ensured a successful school take-off, in all schools.

Mr Oppong said the education directorate was grateful to the KMA for its commitment to partnering with other key stakeholders to stem the spread of the pandemic in the metropolis.