{"id":381533,"date":"2017-12-09T14:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=381533"},"modified":"2017-12-09T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T16:16:14","slug":"kumaca-crisis-exposed-emergency-preparedness-failings-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/kumaca-crisis-exposed-emergency-preparedness-failings-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"KUMACA crisis exposed emergency preparedness failings – MP"},"content":{"rendered":"
The current health crisis at the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region, has exposed Ghana’s failings in emergency preparedness, the Chairman of Parliament\u2019s Environment, Science and Technology Committee, Emmanuel\u00a0 Kyermanten Agyarko has said.<\/p>\n
Speaking on The Big Issue<\/strong>, Mr. Agyarko lamented that, the country’s attitude to the emergency was largely reactive, and stressed that the country needs “to focus on preparedness going forward.”<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”1jldELgn62Ty6tAvCy70NH3mrHB10Psu”]\u201cThis Kumasi Academy incident is just the tip of an iceberg. What we need to be asking ourselves as a people is, what is the state of our emergency preparedness?\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n “Our health budget; if you take away salaries and compensation, our health budget is nothing to write home about. So we cant keep something aside for anything? We are incapable of having a reserve in case of an emergency\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n These concerns\u00a0extend to other sections of society, as Mr. Agyarko expressed fears that, “if there is an earthquake like we hear in some places in this country, will we survive? Is our building code such that the buildings we are putting up, will they withstand tremors?”<\/p>\n