Mampong Technical College, SDA College of Education, Agona (SDACOE), and St. Monica’s College of education have benefited from the second phase of disinfection exercise.
Facilities of these institutions that underwent disinfection were halls of residences, lecture halls, various faculties, administration blocks and offices.
The exercise forms part of government’s efforts to get continuing tertiary students to go back to school and complete their academic year.
As part of the central government’s continuous measures to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education (GES), in partnership with waste management expert, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), started disinfecting tertiary institutions in the Ashanti Region.
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The three-day exercise, which started yesterday, is expected to end tomorrow (Sunday, August 23, 2020). It will cover both public and private universities, Technical universities and health facilities in the region.
The Zoomlion disinfection crew also used foggers to disinfect the open spaces and other surfaces in all of these institutions.
Speaking to the media after the exercise, the Principal of Seventh Day Adventist College, Dr. Peter Ofori Atakorah, underscored the importance of the exercise, adding that ‘so far his college had not recorded any positive case of the virus.’
He praised the government and its partners for the second round of disinfection in tertiary institutions. According to him, the exercise will help keep the school’s environment safe from the virus.
In addition, Dr. Ofori Atakorah said the school had put in place adequate safety measures to protect the returning continuing students against the virus. These, he said, included putting Veronica buckets and alcohol-based hand sanitisers at vantage points to be used by the students.
We will also enforce the use of nose masks by the students, the teaching and non-teaching staff members,” he said.
It would be recalled that a similar exercise was conducted in mid-June, this year when the president directed that all schools and universities to be re-opened for final year students to write their exit examinations.
