Health inspectors have shut down Muslim-run Chinyika
Secondary School in Chinyika Gutu after 143 cases of diarrhoea were reported at
the institution.
The school is 40km east of Mpandawana Growth Point. Efforts
to get a comment from health officials including the Provincial Medical
Director, Dr Amadeus Shamhu were
fruitless but impeccable sources told The Mirror that 330 students comprising
196 borders and 140 day scholars have been thrown onto the streets following
the developments.
Efforts to get a comment from the school authorities were
also in vain but the culture and the religion at Chinyika is all Muslim.
The Ministry of Health is also investigating how the school
got a licence to operate a boarding facility as the conditions are said to be
below standards.
“The children at the school eat sadza with chunks every day
and the hygiene is far below expected standards and this is why it has been
closed,” said a source. masvingo mirror
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