{"id":446806,"date":"2017-12-13T19:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T19:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/kumaca-deaths-sue-government-for-negligence-muntaka-to-parents\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T19:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T19:30:35","slug":"kumaca-deaths-sue-government-for-negligence-muntaka-to-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/kumaca-deaths-sue-government-for-negligence-muntaka-to-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"KUMACA deaths: Sue government for negligence \u2013 Muntaka to parents"},"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, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/52394335.295.jpg\" alt=\"Muntaka Hawker\" title=\"Muntaka Hawker\" width=\"295\" height=\"160\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>MP for Asawase Constituency, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka<\/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\/1513193435_116_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Minority Chief Whip in Parliament Muntaka Mubarak has urged families of the four students who died at the Kumasi Academy following the outbreak of Influenza H1N1 to sue government for negligence.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the government\u2019s handling of the scourge at the Academy since its outbreak had been woeful.<\/p>\n<p>The respiratory illness which the Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang-Manu confirmed at a news conference on December 7, 2017 to be Influenza H1N1 2009 has killed four students from the school since the beginning of this month.<\/p>\n<p>Also 44 students have been infected by the deadly strain and are being treated, Agyemang-Manu told the December 7 news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Calling on the parents to take legal action against the government, Mubarak who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase told Starr News\u2019 Parliamentary Correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan in an exclusive interview that \u201cwe are not safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the way to go. We need to hold people responsible for their action\u2026if anybody is going to [sue] I will be happy to support,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He said since the confirmation of the outbreak as Influenza H1N1 2009, the students are yet to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the government\u2019s claims that the situation had been contained, he said \u201cit\u2019s just shocking, just read, you don\u2019t deal with swine flu with antibiotics. You take the antibiotics to give you time so that at least it subsides the rate of infection so that you try to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you are relying on the antibiotics as a solution to the Swine flu when we all know that anytime there is a swine flu the quick thing to do is to vaccinate\u2026so that those who do not have the disease they will be prevented from getting it and those who have already had then you manage them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 3 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2017-12-13 MP for Asawase Constituency, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka The Minority Chief Whip in Parliament Muntaka Mubarak has urged families of the four students who died at the Kumasi Academy following the outbreak of Influenza H1N1 to sue government for negligence. 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