Conducting "Corona" checks for educational personnel in private schools in Sharjah
Director General of the Sharjah Private Education Authority, Ali Al Hosani
The Sharjah Private Education Authority yesterday, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Community Protection, began conducting free examinations for the new Corona Covid 19 virus for all educational and administrative staff working in various private schools in the emirate, in order to ensure their safety and the safety of students who will join their schools with the start of the new academic year.
The authority, which has set a regulatory schedule that includes all school employees, has been able to conduct nearly 3,000 examinations, as the number of employees who have performed the checks at the end of the period set by the authority will reach more than 17,000 workers in the emirate’s schools.
The authority is currently developing a comprehensive study and a comprehensive program that includes the best methods and mechanisms that can be followed to conduct the examinations for students, which will start early next week after the completion of the tests of the functional staff, where all students over the age of 12 years will be examined.
The director of the authority, Ali Al Hosani, said: The conduct of these examinations comes in line with the strategies and directions of the authority that is keen on the health and safety of its educational staff and students by providing a safe and healthy educational environment that is at the same time consistent with the precautionary measures and preventive measures adopted by the state.
He stated that the authority has prepared a guide with the approach of the new academic year 2020-2021, which includes a package of policies, preventive measures and precautionary measures, as it was distributed to all private schools in the Emirate of Sharjah to be applied in their schools in preparation for receiving students.
The guide includes the methods of distributing students within the school classrooms, the mechanisms of entry and exit, wearing masks, and sterilizing the hands through the sterilizers that are spread in various school facilities, with the need for schools to maintain sufficient quantities of masks, in addition to the obligation of schools to adhere to the daily sterilization of all their facilities.
The guide also touched on mechanisms for dealing with suspected cases to prevent the spread of infection among others, as well as strengthening communication tools with parents to ensure a healthy and safe educational environment that the authority seeks to provide for students and educational staff working in schools.