Mysterious deaths at Ghana college
Parents have reportedly stormed the gates of a college in central Ghana after the mysterious deaths of four students.
Another
18 students at the Kumasi Academy, in Ashanti region, are receiving
treatment - with the local health authority appealing to the World
Health Organization (WHO) for help containing the outbreak.
The
BBC's Muhammad Fahd Adam in the capital, Accra, says it was chaos at the
gates on Tuesday as parents desperately tried to remove their children
from the school.
However, the school is due to remain open until Friday, Dr Emmanuel, the Kumasi regional health director, said.
This is so the students and teachers can be screened before being sent home.
The reason why we don’t want to close the school now is that, we don’t
want a situation whereby if the disease is infectious and some students
have already got the infection, they are going to infect their whole
family with it. That will be a serious risk."
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