Over 500 girls at the Wulugu Senior High School in the Northeast Region have been forced to evacuate their dormitories following the poor state of the building.

The students have since been moved to the school dining hall by the authorities for fear that the dilapidated building would collapse and injure them.

This act of intervention has however raised fears of a possible outbreak of the deadly cerebrospinal meningitis in the school because of lack of ventilation in the dining hall.

Speaking to JoyNews' Eliasu Tanko. the Headmaster of the School, Solomon Yakubu said the state of the dormitories is due to the lack of commitment and work ethic of the Contractor who was assigned the task.

The structure was put up in 2019 under the emergency projects initiative undertaken in second cycle schools nationwide by the late President Mills' administration, but was never completed as the contractor left the site.

With a no-show contractor to finish the work, the school authorities say they had no option "but to make our students occupy it."

He added that the situation could no longer be managed after roofs caved in and the beam holding the structure got broken.

Currently, the girls are being housed in the school dining hall which is also almost an uncompleted structure with dirty cracked walls and no ceilings, broken windows and hanging electricity cables. 

Inside the facility is heavily congested with no regards for Covid-19 protocols. 

Chairs and tables have been moved out from the dining hall and kept in the open where the students' meals are now served.  

The School has the highest enrollment capacity in the region yet lacks classroom blocks for teaching and learning, hence students take lessons in old, abandoned and uncompleted structures.  

Mr Yakubu said the situation is affecting the Free Senior High School programme and called on the government to intervene by providing the School, a more spacious dormitory and dining hall.

"With our current enrollment, the dining hall is too small for us, please come to our aid. This is not good for the children's health," he lamented.

The headmaster believes the completion of these projects will ensure effective academic activities and sustenance of the Free Senior High School programme.