Three students sustained deep cuts on the head, arm and the rib while 11 others were traumatized in the incident, which occurred at exactly 10.35 a.m. which the students were in their classrooms. All the 14 students were rushed to the Begro District Hospital, where they were admitted and treated to enable them to overcome the trauma they had some through during the incident. The students sustained the injuries and shock when they ran helter-skelter, amidst disparate screams of help, out of their make-shift dwarf-walled pavilion classrooms, which had their roofs ripped off by the rainstorm. The students, mostly girls, were reported to have quickly dashed out of their classrooms in a bid to salvage their dresses, which they had them dried on lines near the girl’s dormitory. However, some of them were unfortunately struck by some of the flying object, including the branches of some of the flying roofing sheets from causing an otherwise serious injury to the students and damages to other buildings at the school compound. The force of the rainstorm pulled down portions of the classroom block and some of the teak trees, which prevented some of the flying roofing sheets from causing otherwise serious injuries to the students and damages to other buildings at the school. When the District Chief Executive for Fanteakwa, Mr. Abass Fuseini Sbaab, visited the school immediately after the incident, it was realized that most of the wood used for roofing the classrooms were termite infested. The Assistant Headmaster of the school, Mr, David Odjijah told the Daily Graphic that but for the presence of a number of teak trees on the school compound, the wreck caused by the rainstorm could have been worse. According to him, the school lacked a decent classroom block for effective teaching and learning. Mr, Odjijah therefore, appealed to the authorities to provide the school with a 24-unit classroom block to prevent the recurrence of such disaster in the future. Mr Sbaab assured the management of the school that the assembly would bear all the medical expenses incurred by injured students. He also gave an assurance that the assembly would send labourers and carpenters to the school to clear the debris after which the assembly’s engineers would assess the cost of re-roofing the damaged classroom blocks. |
