Minister of Education Alfred Sears revealed on Thursday that the Ministry of Health has dispatched a team to Inagua to investigate the circumstances under which a number of students at the Inagua All-Age School suddenly got sick.
According to Mr. Sears, a report from the district doctor confirms initial reports that the children had symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
Mr. Sears said Health Minister Dr. Bernard Nottage had also been monitoring the situation.
“(On Thursday morning) a team comprising a medical doctor and nurse was dispatched from the Ministry of Health to go to Inagua to do a follow-up investigation, and to confirm the initial reports that we would have received,” the education minister said.
Mr. Sears said the ailment appears to “look like the flu” but government officials are not certain. He said that the results of the investigation by the Ministry of Health will provide more definitive answers.
He noted that the school had been closed as a precaution, so that the environment might be investigated and sanitized before the students were allowed back to school.
Depending on the Ministry of Health reports, Mr. Sears said the school would reopen on Friday or Monday.
By: Quincy Parker, The Bahama Journal
