We dnt want to die like our mates – Kumaca students
Students of Kumasi Academy, a mixed senior high school at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region, have demonstrated against school authorities over what they term as mysterious death 4 of students.
It took the intervention of the police who blocked the main entrance of the school to stop angry parents and townsfolk from taking their wards home to as they say, to prevent more deaths.
Information available to otecfmghana.com has it that, three students last week, were sick and took permissions to go home but unfortunately died within two weeks at the Hospital.
The students thus decided to demonstrate on Friday, when three more students fell sick and were rushed to the Garden City and Manhyia Government Hospitals.
They now suspect that the students died and the others are also sick because of alleged food poissoning so they are afraid to lose their lives.
One of the students told otec fm that, the school has allegedly experienced about six mysterious deaths, which often occur every third term, hence students feel unsafe to stay in the school.
According to him, the students are even more scared because this time round, the deaths are happening in the second term, and management of the school appear unconcerned.
He even revealed that the Headmistress of the school is also currently ill and on admission.
“We have two form two boys and one form one student who died. As I speak to you, we don’t know the cause of death. However they didn’t die in the school. They fell sick, reported to the sick bay, they had first aid, and the nurses sort exeat for them; their parents took them to the Hospital and they passed on. They all died on different days within a span of about fifteen days. These are isolated cases. For a very long time we haven’t recorded such situations, these are unfortunate times; we have a student population of over 2,800. In the case of the last person who died, he took an exeat, went home and the father took him to a Hospital, he was treated and discharged; later in the day he felt sick again and was taken to Tech Hospital and he died.”
Source: otecfmghana.com/Nana Asare Barima
