Kumasi Academy Deaths
Hundreds of mourners thronged three separate communities in the Ashanti Region yesterday to pay their last respects to three of the four students of Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) who died from meningitis...
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MPs Voice Concern Over Growing Meningitis Death Rate
Parliament on Thursday underlined urgent and pragmatic measures for effective check on Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that has hit parts of the country. A number of people are reported dead from...
Parliament Expresses Concern Over Outbreak of CSM
Parliament on Thursday underlined urgent and pragmatic measures for effective check on Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that has hit parts of the country. A number of people are reported dead from...
Type of Meningitis That Killed KUMACA Students Yet To Be Determined – GHS
The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah, says it will take disease researchers at least a week to determine the particular type of meningitis that killed four...
Cause of Mysterious Death of Students Unraveled After Autopsy
Speculations have been ongoing as to the cause of the death of four students of the Kumasi Academy which many deemed ‘mysterious’ due to the nature of the deaths. Among the very many guessed...
Kumasi Academy Shutdown After Meningitis Claims 4 Lives
Authorities of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACAS) have suspended all school activities and sent all the students home. This decision by the authorities follows the death of some four...
We’re Intensifying Meningitis Surveillance
Simon Osei-Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Minister, has announced a massive health education and surveillance to help save lives and curtail the upsurge of Meningitis in the Ashanti Region. This comes...
Ghana Health Service Intensifies Meningitis Screening At Kumasi Academy
The Ghana Health Service has intensified processes to identify more cases of pneumococcal meningitis at Kumasi Academy and its environs after it discovered 26 cases of the disease at the school....
Deaths Not Due To Meningitis, Purely Spiritual – KUMACA Students
Some students of Kumasi Academy say they are taking the official cause of death of four of their mates with a pinch of salt. According to them, there is no truth in the autopsy report which cites...
Students Dispute Autopsy Report
Some students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (SHS) have rejected the post-mortem examination which concluded that four of their colleagues who have lost their lives within the last few...
Meningitis Cause of Kumaca Deaths Not Food Poisoning – Minister
The Ashanti regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has revealed that the four students who died at the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti region died from meningitis and not food poisoning. The four...
Meningitis Cause of Four Deaths At Kumasi Academy
It has been revealed that the four deaths, recently recorded at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School in Ashanti were due to meningitis. In all, a total of 26 cases of meningitis have since been...
Kumasi Academy ‘mysterious’ Deaths Caused By Meningitis
The cause of the “mysterious” deaths of four students at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region has been found to be Meningitis. This was revealed after...
KUMACA Students Died of Meningitis – Autopsy Report
An autopsy report released by the Ghana Health Service in the Ashanti region into the death of four students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) has revealed that they died of...
Too Early To Suspect Food Poisoning – Assistant Headmaster
Ernest Wiafe, assistant headmaster (academics) of the Kumasi Academy, has said it is too early to blame the death of four students of the school on food poisoning. Doctors, he said, are carrying out...
School Authorities Chase Autopsy Reports
Authorities of the Kumasi Academy have stepped up efforts in getting the autopsy reports of three of their students who mysteriously lost their lives. The school authorities, Kasapafmonline.com...
Four Students of KUMACA Die Within Two Weeks
The spate of death at Kumasi Academy students is assuming more worrying levels following reports of a fourth passing on Friday. Authorities say parents of the latest casualty called at the school on...
Kumasi Academy SHS Death Toll Now 4
The number of students from the Kumasi Academy SHS who have lost their lives over suspected food poisoning has risen to four. The latest casualty is a first year science student of the school whose...
Investigations Into ‘mysterious’ Kumasi Academy Deaths Begin
The Asokore Mampong Health Directorate has begun investigations into the mysterious deaths of three students of the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region over the weekend. The three died in...
Strange Deaths Hit KUMACA
Students of Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) in the Ashanti Region have been asked to go home following disturbances on campus on Friday night, March 31, 2017, linked to the ‘mysterious deaths’ of three...