Appiatse Explosion: 17 died so far; 59 injured – Gov’t
Seventeen (17) persons have died in a massive explosion that happened at Appiatse, a town between Bogoso and Bawdie in the Western Region yesterday. A total of Fifty-nine (59) persons were injured out of the 76 that have been rescued so far. According to a statement issued by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah following the tragedy said: “As at 17:00 hours, a total of seventeen (17) people have, sadly, been confirmed dead, and fifty-nine (59) injured persons had been rescued, bringing to seventy-six (76) the number of persons known, so far, to have been affected by the tragedy. “Out of the fifty-nine (59) injured persons, forty-two (42) are receiving treatment and some in critical condition.” “All hospitals within the vicinity are being used to treat injured persons, and an evacuation plan has been activated to move those in critical condition to medical facilities in Accra so they can get the needed assistance.” However, the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has launched investigations into the circumstances that led to the explosion of explosives that were being transported to a mine at Apiate, a town between Bogoso and Bawdie in the Western Region. “The investigation will among others help the government to determine whether the regulations covering transportation of explosives were complied with and also what led to the unfortunate tragedy,” a statement issued by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on Thursday, 20 January 2022 said. The explosion occurred when a truck conveying explosive material for a mining company, a motorcycle, and a third vehicle close to an electronic transformer was involved in an accident leading to the explosion Thursday, 20 January 2022. The explosion has caused a lot of death and destroyed several properties. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Breaking News: Scores feared dead in gas explosion at Bogoso, W/R
In some other report, scores are feared dead as reports trickle in about a gas explosion at Apenti, a suburb of Bogoso, in the Western Region. Rescue efforts are underway to save lives. More to come soon
2 Nursing Students Crushed To Death
Two nursing trainees who went to town to braid their hair and get some food items after school hours have met their untimely death when a grader machine crushed them to death. The deceased identified as Priscilla Antwi Williams, a Level 300 student, and her Level 200 counterpart, Ellen Kwoffie, were students of the Asankragwa Midwifery and Training College. The incident as gathered occurred over the weekend when they were returning to campus aboard a tricycle, popularly known as ‘Pragya’ when the grader machine crushes them. A medical Doctor at the Father Allan Rooney Memorial Hospital, Dr. Emmanuel Ankama, who confirmed the incident on radio said the two were dead on arrival. According to him, four others have sustained severe degrees of injuries, adding that “we are attending to them, and they are responding to treatment.” Mynewsgh Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your adverts and credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Three pupils knocked down to death at Sankore
Three pupils have died after they were knocked down on their way to school by an overspeeding car at Sankore in the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region. The pupils of Royal East Academy Preparatory School whose names were given as Maxwell Baah, Atta Sekyi and Peter Akompe were crossing the N12 highway at Sankore Resurrection Power Ministry junction when the overspeeding driver knocked all three down. All three pupils who were on their way to school Wednesday, January 12, 2022, did not alter a word as all the three died on the spot. Information available to DGN Online indicates that Maxwell, the first to be hit, as he was walking ahead of all of them when the car crushed him. He sustained injuries in the head and his legs as he was reportedly dragged by the car after hitting him. Atta Sekyi and Peter Akompe tried running back to the pedestrian lane but the driver in charge of the Nissan hatchback, crushed them to death. Atta somersaulted before crashing the windscreen of the car. Peter Akompe was pinned to the accident guides on the road before dying. Peter could have survived the accident, but the car pinned him so hard to the extent of his intestines coming out of his anus, an eyewitness stated. However, the unidentified driver of the Nissan vehicle did not obtain any critical injuries after the accident as he took to his heels after he was rescued from the wrecked car. Frank Owusu, a motorcycle rider who witnessed the accident, noted that all three students were already dead when he tried saving them. “One was already under the car when I got there. “He had been dragged beneath the car while the remaining two were on the car. None of them seemed to have a life in them during the rescue to the hospital”, the eyewitness explained. He noted that the driver was overspeeding hence the accident, saying that if the driver was using a minimum speed, the students would have been saved. Meanwhile, the bodies have been deposited at the morgue of the Sankore Hospital while the driver of the Nissan vehicle is still on the run after killing all three. —DGN online Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Bolgatanga hotspot for HIV in Upper East Region
According to the Regional HIV Coordinator, Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region remains a hotshot for HIV infection in the Region. Sulemana Majeed, Regional HIV Coordinator, who disclosed this at a media briefing, said, “Bolgatanga has always been above the national figure, which calls for an increase sensitization and education.” The media engagement was part of a series of activities by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ghana AIDS Commission to solicit the support of journalists to increase public awareness on HIV and help prevent, control and manage the spread of the virus among the public. Majeed said the Regional figure for HIV infection was 1.9% and noted that the disease was gradually becoming more urbanised with lots of population influx with activities, including commercial sex activities at certain areas within the Bolgatanga township. He emphasised that the HIV hotspot was not static and peculiar to certain areas in the Region but had over the years swung among the Districts, adding that Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality used to be a hotspot. “It moved to Sandema in the Builsa North Municipality for about five years and to the Bolgatanga Municipality. So if you go by the HIV Sentinel Survey (HSS) data, Bolgatanga will be considered as our hotspot,” the HIV coordinator said. He said per the HSS sites of HIV prevalence, the Bolgatanga Municipality recorded increases from 2.8% in 2018 to 3.6% in 2019, and indicated that though there was a decrease to 2.6% in 2020, the prevalence rate was still high in the Bolgatanga Municipality. He said Navrongo recorded a constant figure of 1.6% in 2017 and 2018 respectively, with increases to 2.0% in 2019, and 2.2% in 2020, while the Builsa North Municipality saw a consistent increase from 1.0% in 2017 to 1.1% in 2018 and from 1.2% in 2019 to 1.3% in 2020. The situation, he noted, was not different in the Bawku Municipality as it equally recorded increases from 0.4% in 2017, to 0.6% in 2018, 1.2% in 2019 and 1.3% in 2020. On the number of positive HIV cases per population, Majeed said the first five hotspot Districts were Nabdam, Bolgatanga East, Builsa North, Bongo and Bolgatanga Municipality. Nabdam District, he said recorded 214 HIV cases per population, “So per every 100,000 population in Nabdam, 214 of them would be HIV positive, Bolgatanga East is 175, Builsa North is 152, Bongo 149 and Bolgatanga Municipality is 112 per 100,000 population.” Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the deputy regional director of the GHS in charge of Public Health, called on journalists, especially broadcast journalists at various radio stations across the Region, to support the Health Directorate to educate and increase awareness of HIV among members of the public to curtail the spread.
Ablakwa rescue patients in his constituency as he set up fund to assist them
The extraordinary North Tongu legislator Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has established an Ambulance Service Fund for his constituents. Mr. Ablakwa made a cash donation to the management of the North Tongu Office of the National Ambulance Service for the purpose of creating the fund. He said the fund will cater for vulnerable patients who cannot afford the cost of their referrals outside the Volta Region. According to the management of the Ambulance Service, the national policy is to charge patients for fuel once they have been referred to a medical facility outside a region. In the case of North Tongu, each patient is expected to pay GHS385.00. Mr Ablakwa noted that the North Tongu Ambulance Service Fund shall operate as a revolving fund, which shall be constantly replenished by the MP’s office with anticipated support from other kind-hearted persons and organisations. “We are determined to ensure that no beloved constituent ever loses his/her life merely because they couldn’t afford the cost of fuel demanded by an ambulance service provider,” Mr Ablakwa said. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
BREAKING NEWS: Over 25 people died in gory accident on Bibiani-Sefwi Bekwai road
Over 25 people have reportedly perished in a fatal accident on the Bibiani to Sefwi Bekwai road in the Western North region. The gory accident happened Monday morning after a Metro Mass Bus crashed with a Sprinter Benz Bus. An eyewitness Hamza Mohammed, who spoke to Starr FM, said the Sprinter Bus which was travelling from Sefwi-Wiawso to Bibiani crashed with the Metro Mass Buss which was travelling from Kumasi to Sefwi-Wiawso. It is yet to be established what led to the accident but several others who sustained severe injuries have been rushed to a nearby accident. More details soon…
Stop exploiting tourists when they visit the region – Tourism and Hotel Consultant
A tourism and Hotel Consultant Isaac Ayariga has bemoaned the hostile attitude that residents of the Upper East Region extend to tourists who visit the region to experience its tourist sites and beautiful culture. According to the consultant, he observed with regret, how residents exploit some tourists by stealing their belongings in the region and he believes that creates a negative impression of the region. Mr. Ayariga made this known on the special festive season edition of the Analysis show with a special focus on the hospitality industry with Prosper Adankai on GBC URA Radio in Bolgatanga on Friday, December 31, 2021 monitored by Apexnewsgh.com ” Can you imagine a tourist arrives in the region and someone taking his or her bag away? The person asks for direction but no one is ready to respond. He or she sits in a Taxi or the canopy tricycle and the rider or driver is stern and refuses to talk to the tourist about the potential in the region. CHASS had a conference for the first time in Bolgatanga but many complained to me about poor customer service. I had the opportunity to host a minister’s daughter in the Region. I offered to give her a ride and to take her round. She didn’t intend to go Paga but I took her to Paga and the Burkina border right through Zebilla. Do you know she wanted to try Frafra Dawadawa Jollof? But we combed through Bolga Market yet we did not find one.” Mr. Ayariga Stated. He implored the Ghana Tourism Authority to offer more training to operators of the hospitality industry to sharpen their skills in their customer care services. Mr. Ayariga further called on Businessmen investing in the Hospitality industry to cater for the training of their staff in order to achieve maximum results adding that staff is the major driver who will either attract or wade off potential customers. ” First impression is the last impression. The service a customer gets will live with him or her and entice them to recommend or advertise your facility for others to come for a similar experience ” Mr. Ayariga stressed. Mr. Ayariga bemoaned the fact that a lot of the fact that most hospitality industries in the Upper East Region are not mapped onto the google map for visibility to foreigners who want to visit the Region. ” A foreigner wanted to visit the Upper East Region and when he searched on google he could only locate Akayet Hotel. Meanwhile, there are other hotels that had lost out because they are not mapped onto the google map. No foreigner wants to get to the region and start asking for direction ” Mr. Ayariga intimated Mr. Ayariga further expressed appreciation to the Ghana Tourism Authority for the training of operators of the hospitality industry on how to harness the potential of digitization and good customer care in order to improve the hospitality industry. ” We need more of such training to drive home the need to have a Facebook Account to boost your online presence. Many of the operators of the hospitality industry do not appreciate the advantage of having social media account for the industry.” he contended. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/ Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
Isaac Adongo commissioned supplementary CHPS facility to the people Tindonmolgo
The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Isaac Adongo has provided a supplementary CHPS facility for the people of Tindonmolgo community in Bolgatanga of the Upper East Region. According to the Member of Parliament: “The community was lucky to have been allocated a CHPS Compound under the Northern Development Authority. But after some time, the excitement died down because the project stalled and the contractor reported that he is not being paid for the certificate he issued and he had run out of resources to complete the project and was hoping that when he get paid, he will come back to work on it”. “But in the meantime, nurses have been posted to the uncompleted facility and they just didn’t have anywhere to serve the people. So, the people decided that they would irate a pavilion so that they could sit and attend to their need”. “The assemblyman came to the house with a team and explained to me the circumstances under which the women were operating and offer to come and see what they were doing and when I was coming, I came along with the municipal health director as a technical expert to see the best solution possible”. “But in the meantime, I have had some conversation with the directorate over how to address the alarming mortality rate particularly when women deliver”. “You could have noticed that the statistic in the Upper east is not the best. So, in an attempt to address that we had agreed that we needed to retro face a number of the CHPS Compound in the remote part of the constituency to provide additional midwifery facility, which I agreed to fund from my resources at the municipal health directorate”. “So, we have earmarked one for Sirigu area, and one for Kalbeo area which we already secured fund, then one in Yorogo area to take of that territory and possibly one for Nyaraga. So, the decision was whether it will make sense to invest in a facility like this when there is one that maybe completed sooner or later. We came to a conclusion that it will fit perfectly into our strategy of providing the midwifery centers in the existing facility. So, we agreed that I could fund this to let it serve as a temporal health facility for them. Then, when the other one is completed they will move into that one as the main facility and convert it into a midwifery center”. he said Meanwhile, according to the assemblyman of Tindonmolgo electoral area Hon. Emmanuel Ayamga without the intervention of the Bolgatanga legislator Isaac Adongo, he didn’t know what would have been the way forward. “What the MP did in support of the project is something we should commend him. As an assemblyman, I commend him equally for the effort and support he has given so far. Had it not been because of his effort, I don’t know what would have happened when the nurses came asking for a shield to use. He said Louis Tindaana a public health nurse who represented the municipal health director said the facility will help in providing certain services such as immunization, antenatal care, family planning. “The needs of the people still needed to be attended to especially when it comes to health. As a directorate, staff were posted for this particular uncompleted CHPS Compound and they were working under a structure that wasn’t conducive and as you can see, it wasn’t conducive to have mothers and their children coming for weighing and antenatal. So, the community took upon themselves to set up a shield where they can sit but later fell on the MP who also through the Municipal health directorate is using the health fund that comes through him to fund this project. “In our quest to have universal health coverage, this will help certain services such as providing immunization, antenatal care, family planning. For some of these services, people should not be queuing at the hospital just for these things. So, it brings services of health closer to the door of the people”. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
NER- Chonbosu community lament over clean portable water
Sustainable Development Goal six which targets clean water for all is one of the 17 goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. It requires member states to invest in infrastructure provide sanitation facilities encourage hygiene while protecting and restoring the water-related ecosystem in order to meet the target of providing safe affordable drinking water for all by 2030 However residents of Chonbosu, a farming community under Chereponi in the North East region lament over good drinking water. Mr. Inusah Abdul Razak who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Apexnewsgh.com says in this era of COVID-19, with advocacy on washing hands under clean running water, the residents of the community lacks potable clean drinking water and are prone to the virus. He further indicated that residents have to endure walking miles to access water from the well and a small dam which they usually compete with animals. Mr. Abdul Razak called on the government, NGO’s Organizations and benevolent individuals to come to their aid. Mr. Razak added that all efforts made to get water have yielded no results Madam Jamila Aremiyaw says they leave home at 1 am to get water by 10 am because they are many depending on one source of water and plead that something should be done about their situation. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Prosper Adankai and Gladys Apuwin Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093