The Kumasi Academy Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region is scheduled to conduct its end-of-term exams, notwithstanding a wave of meningitis that has killed four students with 26 others infected.
This was disclosed by the headmistress of the school, Eunice Appiah Nkansah, on Wednesday, April 5 after health authorities revealed the cause of death.
According to the headmistress, the school has instituted measures to decongest the dormitories to prevent further spread of the disease.
She told journalists that even though the school was not expecting all students to return to school, the number of students who had reported was encouraging, hence the school would organise its end-of-term exams after a board meeting on Wednesday.
“…From the look of things, we were thinking that students will not come to school as you rightly said. We are supposed to start our end-of-term exams today (Wednesday) and students have come in their numbers. So, hopefully, we will continue and that will come after the Board of Governors meeting,” she noted.
The school is working with officials from the Ghana Health Service and doctors in the region to mount surveillance in the school to tackle any fresh developments concerning the meningitis.
Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com
