{"id":394133,"date":"2018-01-23T06:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T06:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=394133"},"modified":"2018-01-23T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T06:29:08","slug":"114-kumaca-additional-students-vaccinated-against-swine-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/114-kumaca-additional-students-vaccinated-against-swine-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"114 KUMACA additional students vaccinated against Swine flu"},"content":{"rendered":"
Health officials in the Ashanti Region on Monday vaccinated 114 additional students of the Kumasi Academy against the H1N1 Influenza type A, also known as Swine flu.<\/p>\n
The number was part of the 174 students who could not take part in the vaccination exercise in December 2017, when the general vaccination was done following a detection of the virus.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”nsvLMXDrDDSIxu8tu4TQlI0F0Wvsp6vn”]Over 80 percent of the 2,810 student population, as well as teaching and non-teaching staff of the school and journalists, were vaccinated in December 2017 in the wake of the suspected\u00a0outbreak of the disease at the school.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Asokore Mampong Municipal Health Director, Ofori Amoah Justice, said the number of students who turned up for the exercise was encouraging.<\/p>\n He also encouraged other students who have not been vaccinated to ensure that they receive their injections.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were some students who were not vaccinated on the 21st to 22nd<\/sup> December, so the health authorities and the school agreed on a date that today [Monday], that we will get all those who were not vaccinated against the H1N1. Actually, we were supposed to have vaccinated 174 students, but only 114 turned up, which to me is encouraging. We keep encouraging that the students come to school. When they come they should also make themselves available that they were not vaccinated in the previous and this current vaccination sessions so that together we will fight against the diseases, even though we have declared the epidemic to be over. But prevention is better than cure. We don\u2019t want any episode of any diseases outbreak again.\u201d<\/p>\n Four deaths were recorded at the school back in April 2017 from a suspected meningitis outbreak. But fourothers died in November, and the suspicion was that, they may have died from the H1N1 virus, after samples from some hospitalized students tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n