Teachers and students of Ada Senior High Technical School in the Ada West District are pleading with the District Assembly and sector Ministry to carry out a fumigation exercise in the school.
The mattresses and pillows of the boarders and teacher’s clothing are infested with blood sucking bedbugs and teachers and boarding students complain of skin infections and sleeplessness they have had to endure owing to the attacks from the bedbugs.
Ada Senior High Technical School started as a community secondary school for students living in and around Sege, Ada West District Capital. It is the only second-cycle school in the Distruct.
The school has been battling with severe lack of basic teaching and learning materials and infrastructure for both students and teachers.
On top of the school’s handicap of infrastructures and teaching and learning materials are the infestations of blood sucking bedbugs in the clothing and bedding and mattresses of boarding students and the few teachers who are resident in the school.
Due to the bedbugs infestations, boarding students, both sexes, preferred to sleep on the bare floor. Other students slept on the corridors under untreated mosquito nets, a situation that further exposed the students to malaria from mosquitoes which carry the plasmodium which causes malaria.
The Assistant Head of Administration of the School, Madam Dorcas Naana Wobeson, lamented on the bedbugs infestations in the school.
Further, she mentioned that the school has over the years been struggling to make do with the least available infrastructure in the school, a challenge that is having a huge toll on teaching and learning.
The school has no vehicle except the headmaster’s which the school has been depending on for its rounds.
The school is on Christmas vacation and it is the fervent hope of students, PTA, teaching staff and administration that the sector Ministry and District Assembly move in to solve some of the school’s immediate needs and fumigate the school before resumption in 2016.
Ada Sec-Tech a Death Trap
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