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Many children in private basic schools in Ghanaian attend school using vehicles, as they mostly reside in areas far from their schools. Overloading in school buses has, however, become a major concern for the school pupils.
According to findings of research by some researchers from Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), 100 per cent of the respondents revealed overloading in their buses.
Observation and counting of pupils who alight from their school buses in the morning also showed huge number pupils as compared to the number of seats in the buses.
School children especially the elderly ones revealed how tired they become when they get to school by carrying the younger ones on their laps.
The school was founded in 1949 by the Asanteman traditional authority, the British Colonial Government, the Methodist Church Ghana, and the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.
The School is named after the King of Ashanti, (Asantehene) Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, who donated the land on which the school was built and was modeled on Eton College in England.
The school topped matriculation at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2004 with 441 students admitted and in 2012, with 296 students from the college admitted, and is considered to be one of the best secondary schools in Ghana.
The school won the National robotics championships a record three times between 2013 and 2016.
The World Childhood Cancer (WCC) is supporting Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in the fight against childhood in the country.
Mr Emmanuel Ayiri Adongo, WCC Regional Coordinator for Sub Saharan Africa, speaking at a review meeting organized by WCC to facilitate resource mobilization to enhance diagnosis and cancer treatment outcomes, said, the Centre had supported childhood cancer services at KBTH over the years, through the construction and extension of the Day Care Unit.
The meeting, which also brought together multi – disciplinary team pediatric oncology in KBTH, discussed the provision of childhood cancer service in Ghana to aid WCC to better understand the impacts and challenges of childhood cancer.
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James K. Aikins, Jr., MD, FACOG, FACS
New Brunswick, February 4, 2021 – Expanding its team of highly specialized professionals in the treatment of routine, rare and complex cancers of the female reproductive system, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), a RWJBarnabas Health facility, have named James K. Aikins, Jr., MD, FACOG, FACS chief of gynecologic oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute and chief of gynecologic oncology services at RWJUH, New Jersey s largest academic medical center. He will also serve as Program Director for the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.