KNUST SHS Student dies after neglect over COVID-19 fears

A final year business student of KNUST Senior High School has died of ulcer over teachers negligence due to the fears of contracting COVID-19. 

According to the video circulating online, the teachers and school authorities left the boy identified as Sam Leonard to die of ulcer after suffering from the pain for almost four hours.

In the video captured by some students of the KNUST SHS, the deceased was groaning in pain whiles the teachers who were around the scene were standing there looking unconcerned.

The fate of the ulcer patient was left in the care of his colleagues who were around him whiles he was going through pains.

News of the death of the Business student sent the students on a rampage amid pelting of stones and breaking the windscreen of a saloon car which, the headmistress drove to the school.

“We were demonstrating because yesterday one of our mates was sick and he was left to his fate to survive on his own because of the fear of coronavirus. Nobody attended to him.

“He was ill, he wasn’t showing any signs since morning but later in the afternoon around 3 o’clock he started vomiting because he had some stomach ache,” one student recounted.

“Then we rushed him to the classroom blocks but it seems the teachers were only waiting for his parents to come so that they could take him to the hospital. He was there for close to three hours before his dad came to pick him up.”

According to the students, had the school’s authorities acted fast, the boy’s life would have been saved.

Calm has however been restored to normal by the Ashanti Regional Police.