C/R: Bedbugs are disturbing us – Breman Asikuma SHS students lament

Students of the Breman Asikuma Senior High School in the Central Region have been compelled to sleep in their classrooms and on corridors due to the massive invasion of bed bugs.

According to the students, the presence of bed bugs in their dormitories disturbs their sleep, and so, they are forced to sleep in the classrooms and on the corridors.

Speaking to Class FM’s Central Regional Correspondent, Nana Tawiah, on the sidelines of the school’s speech and prize giving day, they enumerated some challenges facing the school.

The girls’ prefect Maame Ama indicated that the dormitories are overcrowded.

“This [bed bugs] disturbs us during our sleep and makes students feel dizzy or sleepy during classes hours. We have shortage of water supply so it makes it difficult for students to get water in the morning for morning school.

“Lack of dormitories, as in the boys’ dormitory that’s the same thing that’s happening in the girls dormitory. We suffocate, we suffocate a lot, because we’re so overcrowded,” the girls’ prefect of the school, explained.

The students, therefore, appealed to the government to come to their aid and help address the challenges confronting the school.

They also want government to provide a new bus for the school, as the old one has broken down and construct new dormitories.

The head boy of the school said: “Because of overcrowding, we’re now facing the problem of bed bugs, bed bugs are now lingering in the dormitories which is affecting our health status.”

Rehashing the challenges confronting the school, the Headmistress, Sarah Baah intimated that apart from the bedbugs’ invasion in the dormitories, the school currently has no school bus and usually borrow buses belonging to neighbouring schools to be used for trips and other occasions.

She disclosed that most of the teachers of the school, live outside the school, making supervision of the students difficult. The school also has no fence wall to ward off thieves.

She called on the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asikuma Odoben Brakwa, Alhaji Kobina Ghansa, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Lawrence Edutua, Old Students of the School, Philanthropists, and all well-meaning persons, to support the school to address these challenges.

Source: classfmonline.com