GERMANY
The Local
A German Catholic boys’ school is fighting for its right to give its pupil’s suppositories, in the face of a city council report on the use of rectally-administered medication.
The Collegium Josephinum (CoJoBo) in Bonn, a private school for around 1,200 boys, is struggling to maintain its reputation for excellence. One of the teachers, who was also a priest, was recently suspended pending an investigation into allegations that he sexually abused two of its pupils.
The investigation threw a spotlight on the school’s medical service. For decades, the school followed the practice, common in Germany, of giving children painkiller suppositories for a variety of non-specific ailments – migraines, stomach aches, sprained joints.
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