Chad Bryan, Staff Reporter
Some students of the Shortwood Teachers' College in St Andrew are blaming the school's medical team for negligence, after a female student allegedly died as a result of complications associated with the chikungunya virus.
A student, who declined to identify herself, claimed that third-year student Tracey-Ann Campbell was lying down and no attention had been paid to her.
"You cannot have a person there and they are not breathing for hours and you feel the person body and they are cold as ice and they are not under fan or AC. Then you are going to say that you are going to wait until the mother comes from Manchester, all the way to Shortwood Teachers' College in Kingston?" the seemingly distraught student questioned.
"You send to call the principal; the principal only came when we heard the person died. The whole school population is upset," she continued.
Campbell, who is from Christiana, Manchester, was seen last week Sunday by doctors at the University Hospital of the West Indies and was treated for respiratory problems, but was not admitted, according to students at the teacher-training institution.
Students said that the medical team at the institution is sloppy and this incident has aggravated fresh concerns about the school.
Meanwhile, principal of the institution, Dr Christopher Clarke, stated that the best the school could have done was done.
"There are students who will testify that we did the best we could. There is more than the students know. We still have to maintain confidentiality of student records even in death. The school did all they could, believe me. We have access to ambulance services. When the option was given, the student said let us call a taxi," he said.
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