There was pandemonium at the campus of Ho College of Nursing on Saturday when eight students were electrocuted during preparations for the inauguration of a school building. The students were re-positioning a canopy when the metal tip of the canopy accidentally touched a high tension electric transmission line causing them to fall down instantly.
The situation took persons who had gathered for the commissioning of the two storey classroom block for the training college by surprise with some fleeing the scene.
The second year students whose names were not readily available reportedly sustained various degrees of burns and are receiving treatment at the Volta Regional Hospital.
Eye Witness Report
According to an eye-witness, ‘we saw the students re-locating the canopy and then suddenly they all fell down and were not moving. People then rushed to their rescue and immediately conveyed them to the hospital’.
‘It was indeed shocking and frightening but we thank God no one died’, he said.
Some of the people who were mainly National Democratic Congress (NDC) sympathisers had organised a prayer session for the victims to avert any calamity.
The Project
The commissioning of the classroom block initiated by the Ho Central Member of Parliament, Mr. Benjamin Kpodo was nearly called off as the incident delayed the start of the programme for over two hours. The programme had been planned to start at 2:00pm
The Minister of Health, Mr. Alex Segbefia who was at the function, MP and other dignitaries visited the students at the hospital with assurance to assist in the payment of their medical bills.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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Is sad that in Ghana every thing must be soo called commission by ***barred word*** leaders before it can be use. Which country is this, now see how nurses whom their parents have suffered to send them to school nearly got killed by a crazy event and ***barred word*** called commissioning.
I RELY THANK ALMIGHTY GOD FOR THEIR LIVES. BE WELL SOON/QUICK.
You can revive from that my good friend. But the youth Ghana let's call the truth a truth. 1. Do we have hope in life presently? If you guys did not reason up during D7. I bet you..YOUR LIVES WILL BE MISERABLE. Somebody will wait till 2 months to election and start giving out unsustainable items. God save Ghana
Thanks be to God for their lives, vinicius is electrical shock oooo
electrocuted or electrical shock? some one correct me if iam wrong. You don't revive from electrocution I think.
I have never seen such commissioning of projects in the history of our country until these primitive people who would commission even toilet came to the political scene. What profit is that to the students when it is the necessity of government to provide all these,what is special about this commissioning of toilet and buildings by the ndc? We thank God they are all alive. Their allowances have been cancelled and now their lives in danger what government is this?