KUALA LUMPUR: All schools have been asked to set up a special unit to prevent and check the spread of Influenza A (H1N1).
Deputy Health Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong said each unit would monitor the situation in their own school, besides organising campaigns like talks on personal hygiene, distributing leaflets and putting up posters on the viral disease and related information.
“The ministry will also set up an operations room in the Day School Management Division to help overcome the spread of the disease,” he told reporters at the Parliament lobby, here, yesterday.
He said all programmes involving the participation of other countries or held outside Malaysia, such as the Asean Schools Championship in Thailand, would be cancelled or postponed due to the Influenza A(H1N1) outbreak.
He added that during a discussion with the Health Minister (Datuk Liow Tiong Lai), Liow opined that such events should be postponed until a suitable time to avoid the risk of the H1N1 virus spreading to more people.
Wee said teachers and students who returned from their trips abroad would be screened at the airports and required to be quarantined for a week.
“If they are found to have a high body temperature, they will be immediately referred to the hospital,” he said
Wee also said that students, teachers and staff of the SRJK Cina Jalan Davidson, SRK Assunta 1 and 2 Petaling Jaya and Sri Cempaka Cheras which were temporarily closed due to confirmed Influenza A(H1N1) cases, would be required to undergo a comprehensive health check before they reopen this Saturday or Monday.
“The inspections will be carried out with the assistance of Health Ministry officers and would continue for a week,” he said, adding that the schools would also be supplied with thermometers.
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