GHANA- Wednesday, July 15, 2020,/ https://africanpostonline.com/ Despite the alarming concerns raised by agitated parents concerning the poor handling of COVID-19 cases and the accompanying protocols in schools across the country, management of the Ghana Education Service (GES) says parents and guardians are rather pleased with the instituted protocols thus far, according to its findings.
Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, Director-General of the GES in an interview with an Accra based TV station disclosed that “so far, the parents who have called me and my other officials, are so glad about the measures we have put in place and how we are handling the issues”.
Prof. Opoku-Amankwa justified this position despite the increasing number of parents who have beseeched schools with recorded cases of COVID-19, to release their children. He said that this was because the media has created panic which for him was entirely needless.
Given the increase in the number of cases being recorded in schools, educational stakeholders, parents, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), and the National Council for Parents Teacher Association have called for the closure of schools.
The NDC at its 7th weekly media briefing said, that the closure of schools would be the only way the government can express its commitment to protecting students and staff as promised.
Although there has been continuous reassurance from the government that guidelines have been put in place to stem the spread, some Ghanaians are not entirely confident in the existing protocols in schools and have called for the mass testing of students as an additional infection management protocol.
Prof. Opoku-Amankwa further dismissed calls for students to return home insisting that they will only return to the larger society rather, to infect others.
Aside Accra Girl’s Senior High School where 55 persons including students and staff have been infected, other schools have also recorded positive cases of COVID-19 however, the Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Education Service says, those cases “have not experienced a surge” as experienced in Accra Girls’ SHS.
Source: Deborah Narkoah -African Post Online
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