An investigation is taking place into the sanitation at Wabag Secondary School in Papua New Guinea's Enga province following complaints by the school's students.
The students appear to have concocted a story about a typhoid outbreak at the school in order to raise awareness about the kitchen and toilet facilities there.
The Acting Health Advisor for Enga Province, Minapas Lakepam, says he is aware of only two students contracting typhoid which is fewer than he would expect at the school.
Mr Lakepam says he has already written to the school's principal asking him to improve the sanitation facilities, but nothing has been done.
He says one of his health inspectors is to visit the school for a second time and, if no action is taken, he will take the matter up with the government.
"I did agree with the students that their facilities - there was a European Union have constructed the ablution blocks and there was a new one but it was incomplete. They were using a hole, pit latrines. And the water supplies is the main problem. There was no water supply going through the school."
The Acting Health Advisor for Enga Province, Minapas Lakepam.
