Latest incidents in Mukumu Girls High School and Kaaga Boys in Kakamega and Meru Counties repectively, which saw the institutions being closed indefinitely over strange illnesses due to suspected hygiene cases has sparked a lot of controversy which has prompted the County Directors of Education across the country to write to all school heads about the state of hygiene in schools.
Among the questions seen by Educations News addressed to school heads by the County Directors of Education includes; the conditions of cereal storage in schools and protectives used, conditions of water sources and sewerage system.
Also, any emerging risks to students’ safety has been listed as top priority and school heads are supposed to address them as soon as they are discovered.
This comes closely after a Mukumu Girls teacher of English-Literature, Julian Mujema, succumbed yesterday with what the medics described as organ failure at LifeCare Hospital in Eldoret where she was admitted raising the death toll to five from the institution as other 500 learners still admitted in different hospitals.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health is yet to release findings from the samples taken from the school to determine the real cause of the trauma after cholera fears were dismissed.
By Vostine Ratemo
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