Bicol school suspends classes due to H1N1 flu
By Jonas Cabiles Soltes
Inquirer Southern Luzon
First Posted 16:05:00 07/14/2009
Filed Under: Swine Flu, Diseases, Health, Epidemic and Plague
NAGA CITY, Philippines ? Classes were suspended Tuesday until Friday in the Bicol campus of the Philippine Science High School in Goa town, Camarines Sur, after about 70 of its 300 students showed signs and symptoms of the Influenza A(H1N1) virus.
Elsie Ferrer, campus director, said the school suspended classes upon the advice of personnel from the Department of Health (DOH), who immediately went to the school to assess the situation.
Ferrer said the suspension of classes was meant to stop the spread of flu among the students, some of whom where sent home after showing signs of fever.
"Classes are also suspended because there will be a cleanup of the female dormitory," she said. "The situation is under control, we just have to follow a standard operating procedure of the DOH."
Meanwhile, several pupils in the Naga Parochial School in Naga City also showed signs of flu and were sent home to prevent the spread of the flu-like symptoms, said Rosario Olalia, principal of the Church-administered elementary school.
Olalia said 11 pupils in one class had fever but, she said, physicians had assured them that it was just the seasonal and ordinary flu.
She said pupils who were sent home because of fever would not be considered absent.
School authorities have already ordered disinfection of classrooms.
"Windows of air-conditioned classrooms were left open to minimize contamination," Olalia added.
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By Jonas Cabiles Soltes
Inquirer Southern Luzon
First Posted 16:05:00 07/14/2009
Filed Under: Swine Flu, Diseases, Health, Epidemic and Plague
NAGA CITY, Philippines ? Classes were suspended Tuesday until Friday in the Bicol campus of the Philippine Science High School in Goa town, Camarines Sur, after about 70 of its 300 students showed signs and symptoms of the Influenza A(H1N1) virus.
Elsie Ferrer, campus director, said the school suspended classes upon the advice of personnel from the Department of Health (DOH), who immediately went to the school to assess the situation.
Ferrer said the suspension of classes was meant to stop the spread of flu among the students, some of whom where sent home after showing signs of fever.
"Classes are also suspended because there will be a cleanup of the female dormitory," she said. "The situation is under control, we just have to follow a standard operating procedure of the DOH."
Meanwhile, several pupils in the Naga Parochial School in Naga City also showed signs of flu and were sent home to prevent the spread of the flu-like symptoms, said Rosario Olalia, principal of the Church-administered elementary school.
Olalia said 11 pupils in one class had fever but, she said, physicians had assured them that it was just the seasonal and ordinary flu.
She said pupils who were sent home because of fever would not be considered absent.
School authorities have already ordered disinfection of classrooms.
"Windows of air-conditioned classrooms were left open to minimize contamination," Olalia added.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breaki...Bicol-school-suspends-classes-due-to-H1N1-flu