Kumasi, Dec 18, – 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.
GNA
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