Thai Teachers To Monitor Students For Pandemic A(h1n1)

[george]

Teachers to monitor students for pandemic A(H1N1)

By John Le Fevre

BANGKOK (thaivisa.com): -- Thailand’s Education Ministry has instructed schools to monitor all students before the commencement of class for signs of the pandemic A(H1N1) virus.

Education Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said that with the recent announcement that the virus, originally termed swine flu, was set to become more prevalent during August, schools need to maintain strict screening measures.

He said teachers are required to monitor students’ symptoms each morning before class, and any students who are found to be unwell must immediately be taken to a doctor.

Jurin said students may be admitted to hospital if necessary, or sent home. If the parents were not at home the student will be kept at school, confined to a separate area in order to prevent spreading the virus.

The minister said it was up to each to school to decide whether to open or close, after first discussing their situation with the public health office in each district. ่่

Last week the Cabinet received a briefing that the number of patients with the pandemic A(H1N1) virus will more than double from 20,000 cases per week to 50,000 per week, as the virus continues to move unabated through the community.

Professor Prasert Thongcharoen, a leading virologist and the head of the Public Health Ministry’s advisory committee on strategy for public health and medicine, last week said intensive care units, respirators, and more trained health professionals will be needed to cope with increasing infection rates, with the virus spreading unchecked, especially in urban areas.

Dr Somchai Chakrabhand, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said 1.2 million tablets of the antiviral drug oseltamivir, marketed under the name Tamiflu by Roche, had been sent to rural hospitals nationwide in bid to reverse the surge in patients with severe symptoms.

Professor Prasert said the elderly and those with underlying diseases should immediately receive seasonal flu vaccinations and warned of increasing numbers of patients in rural areas over the next two to four months as well.

Last week the Public Health Ministry issued the first of its weekly pandemic A(H1N1) morbidity and mortality reports showing 44 deaths and 6,776 confirmed cases of the virus.

-- thaivisa.com 2009-07-26

[frankthetank]

Teachers to monitor students for pandemic A(H1N1)

By John Le Fevre

Is that really his name??????

[Sisaketmike]

Teachers to monitor students for pandemic A(H1N1)

By John Le Fevre

BANGKOK (thaivisa.com): -- Thailand's Education Ministry has instructed schools to monitor all students before the commencement of class for signs of the pandemic A(H1N1) virus.

Education Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said that with the recent announcement that the virus, originally termed swine flu, was set to become more prevalent during August, schools need to maintain strict screening measures.

He said teachers are required to monitor students' symptoms each morning before class, and any students who are found to be unwell must immediately be taken to a doctor.

Jurin said students may be admitted to hospital if necessary, or sent home. If the parents were not at home the student will be kept at school, confined to a separate area in order to prevent spreading the virus.

The minister said it was up to each to school to decide whether to open or close, after first discussing their situation with the public health office in each district. ่่

Last week the Cabinet received a briefing that the number of patients with the pandemic A(H1N1) virus will more than double from 20,000 cases per week to 50,000 per week, as the virus continues to move unabated through the community.

Professor Prasert Thongcharoen, a leading virologist and the head of the Public Health Ministry's advisory committee on strategy for public health and medicine, last week said intensive care units, respirators, and more trained health professionals will be needed to cope with increasing infection rates, with the virus spreading unchecked, especially in urban areas.

Dr Somchai Chakrabhand, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said 1.2 million tablets of the antiviral drug oseltamivir, marketed under the name Tamiflu by Roche, had been sent to rural hospitals nationwide in bid to reverse the surge in patients with severe symptoms.

Professor Prasert said the elderly and those with underlying diseases should immediately receive seasonal flu vaccinations and warned of increasing numbers of patients in rural areas over the next two to four months as well.

Last week the Public Health Ministry issued the first of its weekly pandemic A(H1N1) morbidity and mortality reports showing 44 deaths and 6,776 confirmed cases of the virus.

-- thaivisa.com 2009-07-26

Arrai na khrap?

Edited July 26, 2009 by Sisaketmike

[Sisaketmike]

Teachers to monitor students for pandemic A(H1N1)

By John Le Fevre

BANGKOK (thaivisa.com): -- Thailand's Education Ministry has instructed schools to monitor all students before the commencement of class for signs of the pandemic A(H1N1) virus.

Education Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said that with the recent announcement that the virus, originally termed swine flu, was set to become more prevalent during August, schools need to maintain strict screening measures.

He said teachers are required to monitor students' symptoms each morning before class, and any students who are found to be unwell must immediately be taken to a doctor.

Jurin said students may be admitted to hospital if necessary, or sent home. If the parents were not at home the student will be kept at school, confined to a separate area in order to prevent spreading the virus.

The minister said it was up to each to school to decide whether to open or close, after first discussing their situation with the public health office in each district. ่่

Last week the Cabinet received a briefing that the number of patients with the pandemic A(H1N1) virus will more than double from 20,000 cases per week to 50,000 per week, as the virus continues to move unabated through the community.

Professor Prasert Thongcharoen, a leading virologist and the head of the Public Health Ministry's advisory committee on strategy for public health and medicine, last week said intensive care units, respirators, and more trained health professionals will be needed to cope with increasing infection rates, with the virus spreading unchecked, especially in urban areas.

Dr Somchai Chakrabhand, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said 1.2 million tablets of the antiviral drug oseltamivir, marketed under the name Tamiflu by Roche, had been sent to rural hospitals nationwide in bid to reverse the surge in patients with severe symptoms.

Professor Prasert said the elderly and those with underlying diseases should immediately receive seasonal flu vaccinations and warned of increasing numbers of patients in rural areas over the next two to four months as well.

Last week the Public Health Ministry issued the first of its weekly pandemic A(H1N1) morbidity and mortality reports showing 44 deaths and 6,776 confirmed cases of the virus.

-- thaivisa.com 2009-07-26

With all respect. But how should teachers check their students before class? This could work in a bilingual section with not more than 35 students, what about schools with 60 kids in a class? And who'll send them to the hospital? Even some students could have the flu, but without showing symptoms. For example: A school with 4,000 students is almost impossible to control, all what will happen is that others will also get the virus, teachers as well. ( Those who have to check the students)The virus will be more prevalant in August, means that a lot could get sick before and all would be out of control. Panic. More prevalant only means that there'll be much more cases in August including dead people, right? Shouldn't all students be checked, before something bad will happen? I know that it's a very hard decision what to do, but please think about lives. "If the parents are not at home, the students will be kept at school'? But where, on a football field, with a fence around? How should that work out in reality? Sorry, but there must be another way to solve such a problem.

Edited July 26, 2009 by Sisaketmike

[Thai at Heart]

Of course, parents can't judge if their kids are sick or not.

[stumonster]

if the children are infected then the rest of the family are also likely to be sick