Teaching and learning activities at some senior high schools (SHS) in the Volta Region may soon grind to a halt as bed bugs invade student's dormitories making life unbearable for them.

The insects which feed on human or animal blood have infected the beds rendering them useless. The situation has driven the students out of the dormitories and they now resort to using the school's lawns or dining halls in their quest to find a comfortable place to rest their heads.

A student of Mawuli Senior Secondary School told Joy News' Volta Region correspondent, Ivy Setordjie, that after Preps they are forced to sleep outside of their dormitories with the cold weather to deal with.

The lack of sleep takes its toll on the students who complained that it make them sleep in class as they don't get to have a restful sleep at night. 

A teacher who spoke to Joy News on the basis of anonymity revealed that he was shocked when he saw students sleeping on the dining hall floor, tables and benches.  

The situation at Mawuli SHS also exposes the students in harms way as the teacher said. 

"We have all kinds of poisonous snakes here [Mawuli School] and to think that students sleep on the lawn, what happens when one gets bitten by a cobra?" the anonymous teacher quizzed.

The teacher is bemused what is taking school authorities so long to fix the problem for the safety of students.

According to the Volta Regional education directorate, Alexander Boadi, fumigation exercises are carried out terminally in various schools in the region. They, however, pointed out that the bugs may have grown resistant to the chemicals used. 

"There are other schools using other measure and we are trying to see if that would work. The lasting solution is that students mattresses must now be covered with leather because they cannot penetrate the leather,"