Have access to health facilities linked to schools to check students with high fever, Magoha says
By Dickson Odhiambo
June 26, 2020
Have access to health
facilities linked to schools to check students with high fever, Magoha says
The Ministry of Education now wants schools to have access
to health facilities which is linked to them for checking high fever among
students when schools re-opens in September this year.
Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education Prof. George Magoha
says this will be very important in helping to curb the spread of the Covid-19
when schools resume learning.
Addressing the press in Kisumu today when he met Principals
of TIVET institutions to discuss re-opening plans and post Covid-19 strategy, Cabinet
Secretary in charge of Education said the TIVET Principals will ensure that the
laid down rules are followed on the issue of curbing the spread of the
pandemic.
Magoha says everyone within the schools in various parts of
the country will also have to fully wear face masks while in school, adding
that face masks must be worn properly and students must also be taught on how
to wear them properly.
The education Cabinet Secretary says face masks will be
provided freely to students and teachers plus subordinate staff.
Magoha says running water
must be available in institutions of learning for thorough hand washing, adding
that hand sanitizers which will be used in such institutions must have alcohol
content of 70 percent.
He says schools will
be required to have thermo guns for measuring temperatures.
Magoha says the schools should be re-open when the country
has reached the peak of the pandemic and stabilizers while coming down for 14
days.
“This is what is going to determine whether we open the
institutions of learning or not. There is no country in the world who has dared
to open when the pandemic is going up,” Magoha says.
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