Rescue team from the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) is expected to be dispatched to eight communities cut off due to the overflow of some major rivers such as Birim, Akukuo, Jejeti and river Sea in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region following the heavy downpour recorded Thursday and Friday in the area.
Bridges linking the communities have almost submerged preventing commuters from crossing. Also submerged are farms.
NADMO officials at the District have described the situation as a major disaster which requires emergency intervention hence sent an SOS message to the National Headquarters through the Regional Secretariat for the dispatch of boats and rescue team to be sent to the affected communities which are Akyem Abomosu, Akyem Mouso, Akwaboaso, Osinase Krobomu , Asunafo ,Nkrukan ,Amonom and Mampong .
Residents in the affected communities who predominantly farmers are struggling to cross the river to their farms while the sick and pregnant women are the worse affected.
Harrison Adzamli, an official of NADMO in the Atiwa District said the District is expecting some boats and rescue team from Regional and National Headquarters of the organization on Monday.
Already, the Jejeti Health Center has been shut down following devastating flood that hit the facility on Thurday.
In a related development, the New Abirim District Director of NADMO is also reporting of some 120 persons displaced in a flood disaster as rivers Afosu and Abohemaa have broken their banks Sunday after a downpour. A total of 20 houses have been flooded destroying household properties.
The disaster has been attributed to the encroachment of the river by a developer.
The acting District Director of NADMO, Ivy Dokua told Starr News the organization is considering demolishing a hotel built on the river ways and obstructing its flow.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/Kojo Ansah
