Via Radio Okapi: Beni: chlorinated water and contactless thermometers to fight Ebola in schools. The Google translation:
The Minister of Health, Oly Ilunga announces that the government of the Republic and its partners will place chlorinated water and thermoflash (contactless thermometer) in schools to fight the Ebola epidemic in schools. He made the announcement Thursday, August 30 during his meeting with school officials in the presence of journalists in Beni North Kivu.
"All the staff of the pension committee, all the teams of the psychosocial commission with their partners: UNICEF and others; they are there to make sure that in schools, we have water points, that there is chlorinated water, that there are thermoflashes. So that's really the message I had for you, " said Oly Ilunga.
According to him, the points of chlorinated water for hand washing should be visible at the entrance and exit of the classes. Thermoflash will be available in each school for monitoring student temperatures.
"If we love our children, if we want to make them safe, it's the school that has to be clean, it's the school that needs to be cleaned up. And the sanitation of the school is first and foremost the two measures there: water, washing hands and monitoring the temperature. And those habits must stay. Even when we have finished Ebola, if we keep these habits, it means that all diseases that affect our children: diarrhea, dysentery ... You will find that they will decrease," said the minister.
The minister expressed the wish to see this epidemic be mastered in September in North Kivu and that there is no 11th Ebola outbreak in the DRC.
Civil society organizations proposed the postponement of the school year due to the Ebola outbreak. But the Ministry of Health said the arrangements were made for a safe return to school.
