{"id":446885,"date":"2017-12-14T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/14\/mp-proposes-resident-health-officers-for-shss-as-disease-outbreak-surges\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T03:00:39","slug":"mp-proposes-resident-health-officers-for-shss-as-disease-outbreak-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/14\/mp-proposes-resident-health-officers-for-shss-as-disease-outbreak-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"MP proposes resident health officers for SHSs as disease outbreak surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 14 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-14<\/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\/26453907.295.jpg\" alt=\"KUMACA DEATHS4\" title=\"KUMACA DEATHS4\" width=\"295\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The latest three death Tuesday caused parents to besiege the school premises<\/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\/1513220439_4_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The outbreak of diseases in some Senior High Schools (SHS) that us causing deaths of students in the country has triggered proposals for resident health officers to be employed in the various schools. <\/p>\n<p>Eastern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) together with the Eastern Regional Health Directorate has proposed that heads of SHS are compelled to at least employ a resident health officer. <\/p>\n<p>A second-year student of the Koforidua Secondary Technical School in the Eastern Region died Friday at the Government Hospital in Koforidua of a suspected case of meningitis. <\/p>\n<p>Similar deaths and outbreak of diseases including swine flu have been recorded in a number of SHSs in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The death of the Koforidua Sec has caused some concern in the school as some students fear that this could be the onset of a disease outbreak, similar to the health crisis at the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the issue, Eric Kwakye Darfuor, Eastern Regional Minister said he wouldn\u2019t want to state that the death recorded at Koforidua Sec Tech was a result of \u201covercrowding\u201d in the school as is being purported. <\/p>\n<p>He added that friends of the deceased student asserted to the fact that, the student had been ill for some time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you talk to those of them who are close to him, he has not been healthy for some time. He did not report early,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Regional Minister added that it is a call to \u201cactually compel heads of institution to create a first point of call for all the schools, employ some health officials and put them there, because it beats imagination how you can be handling about three thousand students without any form of medical attendance; anything can happen\u2019\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>But the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service, Reverend Jonathan Bettey said the GES \u201cdoes not listen to suggestion and take immediately\u201d but rather present such suggestions to the Minister of Education. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [the minister] will also move ahead and present it the parliament or the government for that matter and to the final person that will take a decision\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Rev. 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