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Overview

Parents of students in King’s College, Lagos (KCL), are worried over reports of a suspected Diphtheria outbreak in the school that led to the hospitalisation of some students.

The parents who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos blamed the outbreak on the unsanitary condition of the school.

World Health Organisation (WHO) official sensitising King’s College, Lagos, students on Diphtheria disease.

A parent who pleaded anonymity faulted the school’s management for its seeming silence and not swinging into action promptly in the face of the outbreak.