The family of the 17-year-old student of Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) who died of the ‘strange’ disease has accused school authorities of negligence.
Fodjour Furgerson Livingstone died at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) last Saturday after he was initially admitted at the Tafo Government hospital when he complained of fever.
Brother of the deceased, Martin Fodjour on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem Wednesday failed to take proper care of students who fell sick, but rather concentrated on activities to mark the 60th-anniversary celebration of the school.
According to him, the deceased contracted the disease when he voluntarily took a colleague with a suspected case of meningitis to the hospital.
Martin Fodjour said he is lucky to be alive because he was vaccinated after he conveyed his sick brother who complained of severe back pain to the Tafo hospital and was later transferred to KATH where he died.
Four students died earlier this year, whilst three died just last week, prompting parents to raise concern about the safety of their wards in the school.
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 angry parents were initially prevented from entering the school after the school’s security blocked the main entrance.
Police officers have been deployed to the Kumasi Academy to maintain order after parents trooped to the school to pick up their wards.
Ghana/Adomonline/Adwoa Gyasiwaa Agyeman
