A sudden power cut triggered by a rainstorm threw students of the Kumasi Wesley Girls Senior High School into pandemonium, causing a near stampede that left one girl collapsing and 25 other with minor injuries.
The occupying violent winds ripped off the roof of the dining hall, Thursday evening at 7pm while the students were using the dining hall for prep.
Sensing danger in the darkness, the students run into each other while other fell over trying to use the tables to facilitate a quick escape.
One escapee named Henrietta made it to her dormitory only to collapse from the adrenaline-fueled energy she spent to get safe.
She came to after her friends drenched her with water.
The students, who were mostly in their first year, had minor injuries treated at the Tafo Government Hospital miles away from the Kumasi-based Senior High School.
Four were treated but the other 21 felt better before they got to the hospital.
Headmistress of the school Rev. Mrs. Esi Oduro-Asante says over 2000 students are now resigned to taking meals in shifts which will no doubt affect academic work.
The dilapidated Dining Hall has forced students to use uncompleted dining hall being put up by GETFUND as the most immediate refuge for taking meals.
The meal is now prepared in a kitchen of the roofless dining hall and carted to the uncompleted one across some distance.
The inconvenience was explained by Rev. Esi Oduro-Asante who told Kumasi-based Nhyira FM’s Ohemeng Tawiah, the students now have to eat in shifts.
The attendant delays is making academic work a frustrating daily endeavour.
CEO of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Kojo Bonsu visited the school and has promised to help find a befitting eating place for the students.
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