Foreign students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology are been screened at the school for the Ebola Viral disease. The disease which has been raging in West Africa since May this year was part of the reasons for the delay in the start of the 2014/2015 academic year.
As a preventive measure, government directed that all public universities postpone reopening until proper prevention measures were instituted. The KNUST is home to over five thousand foreign students mainly from Nigeria, Senegal, and Liberia among other countries.
Checks by Ultimate radio at the university revealed that besides the screening that foreign students go through at the airports, the students are again screened at the various hostels.
The Ebola Viral Disease has so far killed over 2000 people in countries including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal and recently the Democratic Republic of Congo. The W.H.O says it will take another six months for the epidemic to be contained.
