NADMO CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ENDS IN K'DUA (SPREAD)

A three-day workshop to build the capacity of members of the Eastern Regional Disaster Management Committee to professionally handle disasters has ended in Koforidua.
The workshop was a partnership between the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and the North Dakota National Guard, with support from the United States Embassy.
The participants, who were taken through topics such as the fundamentals of damage assessment, citizen core and community response and incident management, were drawn from NADMO, the Ghana Education Service and the National Ambulance Service.
Others were from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Information Services Department, the Ghana Red Cross Society, the Geological Survey Department, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the Ghana Highway Authority, the Eastern Regional Security Council, the Ghana Medical Association, the Electricity Company of Ghana and the Town and Country Planning Department.
In an address, the National Co-ordinator of NADMO, Mr Douglas Akrofi-Asiedu, said emergency management had become a complex responsibility that required the full co-operation and participation of all stakeholders.
That, he said, required that personnel of relevant agencies be equipped with the requisite skills and knowledge on emergency management to enable them to professionally handle disaster situations to save lives and property in the event of any emergency.
He was, therefore, happy about the partnership between NADMO and the North Dakota National Guard, which he noted would be used to improve the emergency management system in the Eastern Region in particular and Ghana in general.
The Team Leader of the North Dakota National Guard, Mr Doug Frieze, noted that since disaster management was part of human existence, it was the responsibility of all to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to ensure survival in the event of a disaster.
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