...It is not true - says VC
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Ivan Addae Mensah has told The Daily Guide that it is absolutely false the assertion that 17 percent of students out of a total population of 12,000 students in the country's premier university, have contracted the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Reacting by phone to the front page story of the paper on Monday, titled, "2000 Legon Students Have AIDS", the obviously worried Vice-Chancellor, himself a Chemist, said he is not aware of any random sampling of students for any study as asserted by Dr Richard Anane, the Minister of Health before Parliament last Friday.
He said so far as he is aware the health authorities of the Ministry of Health (MOH) have told him of the death of only three students from the deadly disease.
The Guide on Monday carried the story sourcing the Minister of Health when he appeared in Parliament last Friday to answer questions posed by the Hon. Kwakye Addo who wanted to know the concrete programmes his ministry has put in place to check the fast spread of the menace, which according to medical expects has no known cure.
According to the Minister, due to the seriousness of the issue, a desk has been set up at the Presidency to give more high-profile attention to the scourge of the disease.
...It is not true - says VC
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Ivan Addae Mensah has told The Daily Guide that it is absolutely false the assertion that 17 percent of students out of a total population of 12,000 students in the country's premier university, have contracted the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Reacting by phone to the front page story of the paper on Monday, titled, "2000 Legon Students Have AIDS", the obviously worried Vice-Chancellor, himself a Chemist, said he is not aware of any random sampling of students for any study as asserted by Dr Richard Anane, the Minister of Health before Parliament last Friday.
He said so far as he is aware the health authorities of the Ministry of Health (MOH) have told him of the death of only three students from the deadly disease.
The Guide on Monday carried the story sourcing the Minister of Health when he appeared in Parliament last Friday to answer questions posed by the Hon. Kwakye Addo who wanted to know the concrete programmes his ministry has put in place to check the fast spread of the menace, which according to medical expects has no known cure.
According to the Minister, due to the seriousness of the issue, a desk has been set up at the Presidency to give more high-profile attention to the scourge of the disease.
