KUMACA ENGAGES PSYCHOLOGISTS TO CALM STUDENTS

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Authorities of the Kumasi Academy, KUMACA, have employed the services of Psychologists and Counselors to calm down the nerves of students of the school who have been agitated and apprehensive in the last three weeks following a series of deaths of some of the students from unexplained causes. 

The services of the Psychologists and Counselor is considered by the school’s authorities as the best option in the circumstance to prepare the students to start their End of Term examination ahead of the Easter break. 

The Public Relations Officer at the Ashanti Regional Education office, Casandra Twum, who made this known to Radio Ghana in Kumasi noted that the GES has however ruled out food poisoning as the cause of mysterious deaths that have hit the school in the past three weeks. 

She confirmed that three students of the school, all boys who were in their first and second years, have died in recent days. 

According to the PRO, the deceased students fell sick on different days while in school. On each occasion, she noted, they complained of headache and fever following which they received first aid treatment at the school’s Sick Bay. 

However, when their conditions were not any better after classes, their parents were invited to take them home for further medical treatment.

 Madam Twum explained that it was while the concerned students were receiving medicare at home that they passed on, on different days. 

The news of these deaths is what caused fear and panic among the students who demanded the causes from their authorities. 

However, the school’s authorities also requested for time to follow up to the bereaved families and possibly the hospitals for official report. 

But the students could not wait for that and began circulating rumours with the suspicion that their colleagues died from food poisoning and later caused some disturbances and allegedly damaged some of the school’s premises. 

This caused some of their parents to rush to the school last Friday evening to evacuate their wards but they were denied entry into the school but on Saturday morning, they were allowed to send their wards home to calm down tempers. 

The Public Relations Officer appealed for calm among parents and guardians as there is no cause for alarm.

 Madam Twum again urged the parents to allow the students return to school to prepare for their internal examination.


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