{"id":444287,"date":"2017-12-06T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/health-experts-search-for-cause-of-students-deaths\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T13:40:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:40:57","slug":"health-experts-search-for-cause-of-students-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/health-experts-search-for-cause-of-students-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Health experts search for cause of students deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday,  6 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>GNA<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/43265607.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kumaca6\" title=\"Kumaca6\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Four students have died under strange circumstances in the school since lastweek<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512567657_71_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A team of medical experts from the Disease Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has begun full-scale investigation into the mysterious deaths of students at Kumasi Academy Senior High School.<\/p>\n<p>Four students had so far died under strange circumstances since last week, with the last of these deaths occurring on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, announced this after an emergency meeting held by Regional Security Council (REGSEC) with the GHS and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to discuss a contingency plan to deal with the situation, which was fueling public anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Many parents are increasingly getting anxious with reports that some of them are rushing to pick their children home.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Osei-Mensah, however, urged everybody to remain calm as they did everything to bring things under control.<\/p>\n<p>The students, teachers and non-teaching staff he said, were being screened as they put in place preventive measures to stop whatever disease had struck the school from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Health Directorate, Dr. Alberta Nyarko said apart from the four deaths, 39 other students of the school, had shown signs of fever.<\/p>\n<p>Those students, she added, had been admitted at various health facilities \u2013 Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi South and KNUST Hospitals for observation and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>She called for the public to stop speculating about the cause of the deaths. 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