A preliminary report by the Damongo district hospital in the West Gonja district of the Northern region reveals that non-communicable meningitis was the cause of death of one student at the Damongo Senior High School.
The headmaster of the school Kippo Harrison said the disease has nothing to do with the nine other students who have been admitted at the district hospital believed to be exhibiting signs and symptoms of meningitis.
According to him, it has been an annual phenomenon in Damongo that during the harmattan season students suffer from meningitis.
Some schools in the country have in the past few days recorded an outbreak of meningitis, Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti region, Koforidua Secondary Technical and Damongo SHS are the second cycle institutions that have so far recorded deaths due to the outbreak of meningitis.
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Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Health Service Rebecca Akonu in a radio interview said it will be impossible for the service to provide each secondary school with a doctor as suggested by some health experts.
Rebecca Akonu said the service is understaffed and the appropriate measures available is what the service is using.
According to her, every health district directorate has been issued with an alert about the outbreak and they are expected to communicate with the hospitals under their watch to be able to handle the outbreak during this harmattan season.
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