Classroom block for Tepa Midwifery Training School
The Ahafo Ano North District Assembly has handed over a six-unit classroom block to the board of the Tepa Midwifery and Health Assistants Training School.
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Comprising an administration block, a demonstration room, an eight-seater toilet facility and a mechanised borehole, built at a cost of GH¢469,000.00, the block will enable the authorities to move the midwifery training school from its current location at Anyinasuso closer to the hostel of the trainees at Tepa.
The building, which is also directly opposite the new 60-bed district hospital being built for the district, would enhance practical lessons for the students.
Currently, 279 midwife trainees who are undergoing training at the Tepa Midwifery and Health Assistants Training School have to travel from Tepa to Anyinasuso to attend lectures and return to their hostel at Tepa daily.
The Tepa Traditional Council, chaired by the Omanhene of the area, Nana Adusei Atwenewaa Ampem II, released a 20-acre land to the government to put up the block closer to the hostel for the students.
The council is also undertaking the walling of the school as part of its contribution to promote and support education in the area.
As part of the handover ceremony, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Mr David Addai Amankwah, said aside the classroom units, the administration block and the mechanised borehole, the government would also provide a dining hall for the school to ensure that the students do not travel to town to find food to eat.
He, therefore, performed a sod-cutting ceremony for the construction of a dining hall for the school, which is estimated to cost GH¢200,000.00.
Benefit
He said the school had to spend a lot of money on fuel, transporting the students to and from the school every day to attend lectures, pointing out that, aside the resources expended on transportation, the daily journey to and from school also put the lives of the students at risk.
Mr Amankwah assured the authorities of the school of the assembly’s support to ensure that the school offered the best of training to its students.
Gratitude
The Omanhene of Tepa, Nana Adusei Atwenewaa Ampem II, who is also the board chairman of the school, was grateful to the government and the assembly for undertaking the project, and expressed optimism that the project would bring a great relief to the students and their teachers.
He said the school would also bring development to the district as it would attract more students and more service providers to set up businesses in the area.
Mr Collins Atta Poku, Vice-Principal of the school, who received the keys to the block, expressed gratitude on behalf of the school to the government. He, however, appealed for a library and an Information Communication Technology (ICT) laboratory to enhance academic work.