Seven KUMACA students died from what has been confirmed as H1N1
Kumasi Academy Senior High School (SHS) has taken delivery of large quantity of sanitizers and antiseptics to help give protection to the students and their teachers from bacterial infections.
This was a donation from PZ Cussons Ghana Limited, manufacturers of personal healthcare products and consumer goods, and comes on the heels of the recent reported outbreak of swine flu (H1N1) in the school.
Four students died of the flu and scores of others fell sick and had to spend days in the hospital, receiving treatment.
Presenting the items at a ceremony in Kumasi, Mr. Henry Mends, Area Sales Manager of the Company for the Northern Sector, said these were meant to strengthen preventive healthcare.
He described as deeply disturbing the recurring outbreak of epidemics in the school.
Seven KUMACA students had in April been killed by meningitis.
Mr. Mends pledged to lead the national environmental sanitation campaign and said the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) had signalled its readiness to collaborate with the company.
PZ Cussons had since the beginning of the year supplied boxes of sanitizers to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and other health facilities.
Another official of the company, Mr. Eric Kwadwo Tsitsi, said quality was its watchword, adding that, it would continue not only to make sure that its products met customer satisfaction but to live to its corporate social responsibility.
The Reverend Sylvester Osei Owusu, the Headmaster, said they were grateful for the gesture.
He repeated the assurance that the outbreak of the flu had been brought under control through the sustained efforts of the Ghana Health Service and other volunteer groups.