Nadowli-Kaleo: 2 dead in St. Don Bosco Special School

Nadowli-Kaleo: 2 dead in St. Don Bosco Special School

One of the few special schools in the Upper West Region, St. Don Bosco Special School at Loho in the Nadowli-Kaleo District, is appealing for support.

The school currently has no means of transportation, thus, making it difficult for students of the school to access medical care when necessary.

Headmistress of the school, Madam Veronica Dong, who spoke to Class 91.3 FM’s Upper West Regional Correspondent, Ibrahim A. Wangara, explained the challenges confronting the school.

According to Madam Dong, the school lost two students last year due to the lack of transportation to the hospital.

“The children have various conditions, they have unique problems with unique solutions. For instance, last term we lost two children due to this lack of transport to send them to the nearest hospital for treatment in case the need arises.

“Some are epileptic, when the seizure comes and we can control it, fine. Some, we need to carry them to the nearest health centre for treatment. The first child that died it happened to be a market day for one of the villages around. Mostly, we rely on this yellow yellow or Praghiya. That day, we stood by the roadside for a very long time we couldn’t get any of them to convey the girl to the hospital. Before we moved her there, it was too late, so means of transport is one of our biggest challenges,” the headmistress of the school revealed.

The school also lacks accommodation for the teachers who are put in charge of the students as housemothers, thus, making supervision of the children difficult.

The headmistress said: “No teacher stays in the yard here. We don’t have any accommodation for teachers. Even the house mothers are five but all them cannot come on duty due to lack of accommodation so two come at a time.

“And the teachers too, none of us stay around so when we close like this we all go to our various homes. So when there’s a case the house mothers cannot handle, they have to call us to travel from our homes to solve the problem so, we will be grateful if we could get accommodation in the yard, to enable us stay and monitor and supervise what happens to the children after the normal class hours.”

She further noted that the vocational department of the school lacks enough raw materials to produce in large quantities to sell due to lack of funds.

She, therefore, appealed to individuals willing to help the school revamp the vocational class to come to their aid.

The school was established in 2000 as a unit under the Wa School for the Deaf.

It was moved to its present location at Loho, after it gained autonomy in 2016.

It currently has a population of 148 special students

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Source: Class FM