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"speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the student who died on 8th June, 2010 was a student at Makuri Girls High School. Her name is Caroline Ntinyari, Admission No.2695. She died at Chogoria PCEA Hospital. I will now use that information to give answers to the Question the way it is. (b) She started complaining of chest pains on 31st May, 2010 and was taken to Chogoria PCEA Hospital with other students by the school caretaker, Doreen Gacheri. She and other students came back to the school after treatment and she continued taking medicine that was prescribed at the hospital. Her condition improved thereafter and she and other nine students attended the ASK Show in Meru Town on 4th June, 2010. On 5th June, 2010, during morning hours, she reported to the Deputy Principal that she was unwell. The caretaker of the school then took her and other students to Chogoria PCEA Hospital. After medical examination, the doctor informed the caretaker that the student had to be admitted. Before admission, the student borrowed a cell phone from a person known to her at the hospital and requested the caretaker to allow her to call her parents, to which the caretaker obliged. After the admission, the school caretaker went to buy some fruits for her outside the school compound and on coming back, she found that the parents of the girl had already arrived at the hospital and they were with her. On 6th June, 2010, another school caretaker, Mr. William Njunguni, went to check on the student at the hospital at 1.00 p.m. He found the studentâs parents there and he stayed with them until 5.00 p.m. and went back to the school later in the evening. On Tuesday, 8th June, 2010, at 12.00 p.m. the matron of Chogoria PCEA Hospital called the school principal and informed her that the student had died at 10.46 a.m. But earlier in the day, the caretaker had been sent to check the condition of the girl at the hospital. When he reached there, he met a lot of hostility from the parents of the dead student and relatives within the hospital compound. He went back to school and reported the matter. In fact, the caretaker was not even allowed to see the student to ascertain whether she had died or not. After the hostility displayed by the parents towards the schoolsâ administration, the BOG met and decided that they would visit the parents of the dead student on 15th June, 2010. The group to visit the home included five teachers, 40 students and six executive BOG members. When the parents were contacted about the visit to their home, they declined and the school and the BOG called it off. In that case, the school administration never displayed any negligence when the girl was sick. She was taken to the hospital when she complained that she was unwell. The dead student was ill in the school compound from 31st May to 3rd June, 2010. But she was under medication in the school. She got better and even managed to go to the show, as I have already indicated. The Principal did not visit the girl at the hospital but she delegated the work of the hospital matters to the school caretakers who had been taking all the sick students to the hospital. The admission of the student to the hospital was reported to the parents by the student herself. When they went to the hospital, they met the caretaker of the school. So, nobody went to the funeral because of the hostility. The police informed the school that nobody, not even the students, should attend the funeral. Otherwise, there would be problems."
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