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Bedbugs have taken over the dormitories at Breman Asikuma Senior High School in the Central Region, forcing students to sleep in the dining hall and classrooms instead.
There are serious health concerns because there are more and more bedbugs in the school, and the situation is made worse by the fact that the dorms are too full.
The students said that they usually put their mattresses in the hot sun to kill the bedbugs, but the number of bedbugs keeps growing.
They said that the school’s lack of water was a big problem that made it hard for them to do their schoolwork.
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Bedbug bites can cause health problems like not getting enough sleep and anemia from losing too much blood. When bedbugs bite, they irritate the skin and cause sores.
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The bites are itchy, and you usually have to buy something over-the-counter to stop the itching.
The school’s headmistress, Madam Sarah Baah, said that besides the bedbugs in the dormitories, the school has other problems, such as not having a school bus. She said that the school usually borrows buses from other schools for trips and other services.
She said that almost all teachers live outside of campus, which makes it hard to keep an eye on them.
She asked that the school be surrounded by a fence so that thieves couldn’t steal things from the students.
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