Ghana: Asesewa SHS Faces Threat of Cholera

Asesewa — Students of Asesewa Senior High School (SHS), the only second cycle institution in the Upper Manya District of the Eastern Region could be hit with cholera, if authorities do nothing about the current sanitation situation in the school.

The school, which has a student population over nearly one thousand five hundred, cannot boast of a decent toilet facility. They are using make shift Kumasi Ventilated Improve Pit (KVIP) structure. The visible cracks on the walls of the facility and its related sanitation problems are posing a serious danger to the students.

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