GENERAL NEWS
Gov’t distributes PPEs ahead of reopening of schools
Government has made available Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and logistics to two hundred and thirty-four tertiary institutions (234) as part of measures to equip universities following the President’s directive to partially open up schools for final year students.
The distribution began on Saturday 13th June 2020 by the Ghana Armed Forces and it is the first phase of logistical and PPEs supplies to these institutions as government intends to also fully furnish basic, secondary, and tertiary schools.
Addressing journalists in Accra Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said a total of 234 tertiary institutions are benefiting from this first badge of logistics. 57 in the Greater Accra Region, 31 in Ashanti, 18 in Central, 14 in Northern, 22 in Eastern, 17 in Volta, 11 in the Western Region, 14 in the Bono Region, 11 in Upper East, 11 in Upper West, 9 in the Ahafo Region, 6 in Bono East, 5 in Western North, 3 in Oti, 4 in Savannah and 1 in the North East Region.
President Akufo-Addo in his tenth address to the nation announced the partial reopening of schools so as to enable final year students at various levels to write their final exams announcing that government will put in place the right mechanisms to ensure that students, teaching and non-teaching staff are protected amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
This the Information Minister said government is doing all it can to provide logistical support to the various schools to make sure they operate smoothly.
“In all, we are expecting about 200,000 persons to benefit from these logistics. In terms of the specific logistics, everybody is getting three face masks which are reusable so that will be about 600,000 unit of face masks” he added.
The Minister said over 1,700 veronica buckets, over 200,000 two hundred ML units of hand sanitizers, and over 3,400 packets of soap and another 3,400 packets of tissue are being distributed.
“About 900,000 thermometers are also going to all of these schools in addition to the disinfection and other exercises that are going on there” he added.
