Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma West Constituency and Minister for Communication, has visited and donated anti-Coronavirus (COVID-19) items and health equipment to the various Senior High Schools and Dansoman Polyclinic.
The second cycle schools she visited with her team include Saint Margret Mary Senior High School, His Majesty Senior High School, Seven Great Princes Senior High School, and Ebenezer Senior High School.
Each of these schools received boxes of face masks, hand sanitisers, and sanitary towels for the girls to help them their time of uncertainty, as well as the COVID-19.
The boys, on the other hand, requested for equity and fairness in the distribution of the items, and pleaded with the MP to add boxer shorts next time.
Presenting the items to the various schools, Madam Ekuful indicated that the visit was, first and foremost, to encourage the candidates sitting for the West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to work hard and pass with flying colours.
Secondly, to motivate them on the responsibility that lies ahead of them as citizens not to disappoint their parents, guardians, teachers, their community, and the country as a whole, to ensure that the resources invested in them become profitable.
According to her, the quality of instruction they have received over the three-year period was holistic education, and they must endeavour to manifest same, saying, “the quality instruction will be of no use if you do not utilise it for the betterment of the country.”
She said the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was given to them because in human living memory, never has it been recorded that a pandemic of this nature has faced the human race, therefore, it was important everyone protect his or herself.
She advised that personal protection had become more critical now that the Covid-19 protocols had been further relaxed.
Albeit the joy of receiving the items, the various schools also placed their requests, ranging from cost of data, free distribution e-learning devices (tablets), abruption of private senior high school students’ tuition fees, bus and upgrading of school status, before the MP.
Mrs Owusu-Ekuful promised that talks were underway to ensure that each student gets a tablet locally manufactured and wi-fi installed in schools, and was confident that the measure put in place by the Communication Ministry would encourage the telecommunication companies to revise their tariffs downwards, so that every Ghanaian child benefits.
With the other concerns raised, she assured them that either the government was already working on it or under consideration.
Items donated to the Dansoman Polyclinic also included operation lights, notebooks, boxes of pens, and ward partitions among others.
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