Some anxious parents and guardians Wednesday morning reportedly stormed the campus of Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) to take their children home following the mysterious deaths of four students.
The distraught parents many of whom came from Accra and Northern region, according to reports ignored pleas from school authorities for their wards to be vaccinated and took them home.
Four students have died and at least 18 others hospitalized for an unknown diseases in less than one week.
This created fear and panic promoting medical experts from the Disease Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to begin full-scale investigation into the mysterious deaths of students at KUMACA.
The students, teachers and non-teaching staff were being screened as they put in place preventive measures to stop whatever disease had struck the school from spreading.
Students have begun receiving Azithromycin antibiotics against possible bacterial infection.
The treatment comes as tests run at the Noguchi Centre on three victims ruled out viral hemorrhagic fever, including meningitis.
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah who is head of the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) at an emergency meeting with the GHS and the Ghana Education Service (GES) discussed a contingency plan to deal with the situation, which was fuelling public anxiety.
But this measures being implemented, the parents said are not enough to guarantee the safety of their wards.
Rather, they want to take them to hospital for proper medical screening to ensure they are not infected.
Ghana/Adomonline/Adwoa Gyasiwaa Agyeman
Parents storm KUMACA after mysterious deaths
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