by Rachael Kimola - Story: 49078
Aug 27, 2009 / 5:00 am
SD 23 has a plan for dealing with the H1N1 virus as students prepare to return to school.
School District 23 Superintendent Hugh Gloster says as a district they have a three step plan for dealing with the anticipated second wave of the virus.
“We've been working with Interior Health since 2007 on pandemic planning. Obviously with the move to the second wave anticipated to come in the fall, we have also been working with their pandemic response framework,” says Gloster.
He says the first step is what they can do in preparation of the flu season.
“Then, what we will do during the flu season while we are dealing with cases and finally in follow up afterwards. Each of those phases includes and education and training plan that we will be doing, as well as a communications plan to make sure that message is getting to staff and students and parents.”
Gloster says they also have a continuity plan to go into effect should they have significant absences of students or teachers.
“We also have reporting requirements for our schools, staffs and we ask parents to cooperate as well in terms of if they are dealing with sick children at home, so we can keep our local medical health officer, as well as the provincial body, updated in terms of where things are in terms of number of incidents of influenza.”
He says they have to prepare for the worst case scenery.
“From our standpoint, we think we are well prepared, we have been working very closely with our local health authority to ensure we share information and we work very closely together. We are going to continue to adjust our plan as things roll out and new info becomes available.”
Aug 27, 2009 / 5:00 am
SD 23 has a plan for dealing with the H1N1 virus as students prepare to return to school.
School District 23 Superintendent Hugh Gloster says as a district they have a three step plan for dealing with the anticipated second wave of the virus.
“We've been working with Interior Health since 2007 on pandemic planning. Obviously with the move to the second wave anticipated to come in the fall, we have also been working with their pandemic response framework,” says Gloster.
He says the first step is what they can do in preparation of the flu season.
“Then, what we will do during the flu season while we are dealing with cases and finally in follow up afterwards. Each of those phases includes and education and training plan that we will be doing, as well as a communications plan to make sure that message is getting to staff and students and parents.”
Gloster says they also have a continuity plan to go into effect should they have significant absences of students or teachers.
“We also have reporting requirements for our schools, staffs and we ask parents to cooperate as well in terms of if they are dealing with sick children at home, so we can keep our local medical health officer, as well as the provincial body, updated in terms of where things are in terms of number of incidents of influenza.”
He says they have to prepare for the worst case scenery.
“From our standpoint, we think we are well prepared, we have been working very closely with our local health authority to ensure we share information and we work very closely together. We are going to continue to adjust our plan as things roll out and new info becomes available.”
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