Two pupils in classes five and six respectively at the Tema Parents Association School in Tema have tested positive to the HINI Influenza after reporting at the Tema Polyclinic with fever and cold.
Their identities have not been disclosed but they are said to be foreigners who had recently travelled outside the country with their parents.
As a result of the diagnosis, the Tema Metropolitan Directorate of Education has directed the school’s authorities to suspend classes for the pupils of the two classes until the final results from the Noguchi Memorial Centre were certified.
According to the Tema Metropolitan Director of Health, Dr Ernestina Quainoo, specimen had been taken from the phlegm of 150 children from the two classes and other children of the school who were experiencing slight coughs to the Noguchi Memorial Centre.
She explained that the influenza in the two children was detected when their parents took them to hospital over the weekend with symptoms of fever and cold.
Dr Quainoo said a team of medical personnel was dispatched to the school yesterday morning after the diagnosis at the Tema Polyclinic.
She said the two affected children were responding to treatment.
Dr Quainoo said the report on the specimen delivered to the Nogochi Centre was expected to be received today Wednesday March 17, 2010.
The Assistant Headmaster of the school, Mr Abraham Afer stated that the other classes were in session and advised parents to be patient, since medical personnel were controlling the situation .
He denied earlier reports that some parents had started withdrawing their children from the school due to panick.
A parent later told the Daily Graphic that her child developed high temperature at the weekend but was diagnosed with a respiratory infection making her uncomfortable after news about the presence of the influenza in the school went round.
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