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KWAHU ATIBIE NMTC: Management, students appeal for infrastructure support

The management and students community of Atibie Nursing and Midwifery Training College in Kwahu Atibie in the Kwahu South District in the Eastern Region has appealed to government and other benevolent organizations and individuals to come to the aid of the college as they are currently facing infrastructural deficit.

Date Created : 11/26/2019 3:03:29 AM : Story Author : William Dei-Gyau/Ghanadistricts.com

This appeal was made by the Principal of the College, Mrs. Paulina Osabutey in a recent interview with Ghanadistricts.com after a matriculation ceremony which saw some 243 students admitted into the college.

It is obvious that the college which is offering various professional health education to our students aspiring to become the caretakers of the sick in the hospitals can only boost of few classrooms which were used to house some 80 students a decade ago.

The principal laments that the college is still using the only classrooms in which she came to meet somewhere in the year 2006 which was housing only 80 student population.

According to her the college has since not received any infrastructure support even though the school population now stands at 658, stressing that this population has caused the management of the college to divide some classrooms into two to allow lessons to flow as the college now offers three professional health courses which are registered Midwifery, Registered General nursing.

The other programs are Post Nursing Assistant (Clinical) and Nursing Assistant (Preventive) Midwifery Preventive.

However, in an effort to solve these problems, the principal revealed that the school has initiated the construction of a four-story classroom block which is currently under construction and funded through the Internally Generated Fund (IGF) and proceeds from some fundraising organized by the school to support the project.

Again it has through the Stakeholders Association of the college initiated a 2-story building hostel to house the students as students have no accommodations hence renting apartment in town, making teaching and learning a difficult task for the school authority as students have to walk all the way from town, she stressed that some students fail to attend prep and other important classes scheduled to the evening.

"We are focused to secure our students but we are losing such focus due to lack of hostels facilities.

"We have no choice than to rent a facility in town to serve as a hostel for the school, we need the help to get our students within our confines we believe after completing these projects we will somehow be able to meet our objective" she stated.

Speaking to the President of the School Representative Council (SRC), Miss Baiden Afua Mary revealed that they are in a serious crises as the college cannot boast of a Stand-by Power Plant to provide electricity whenever there is light out. She stressed that the school always experienced low current voltage every weekend which affects the academic work of the college.

She emphasized that her office together with the school administration is lunching operation procure a Stand-by Power Plant for Atibie Nursing and Midwifery Training Center.

"We are sending out sponsorship letters to solicit for funds to buy a standing plant for the school" She stated.