Lagos okays resumption of academic activities at Queens College

Govt looks for proactive measures to deflect catastrophe in Unity universities

Understudies of Queens College, Yaba, Lagos, can now continue for scholarly exercises as examination of water tests from all water conveyance focuses at the school indicates palatable outcome, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, has said.

As indicated by a press articulation by the Director, Public Affairs of the service, Adeola Salako, and acquired by The Guardian, the school specialist in a joint effort with the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), Old Girls Association and the Federal Ministry of Education has effectively tended to the water emergency that killed three students at the school, which prompted inconclusive conclusion of the school.


Idris, while giving a report on the flare-up of gastroenteritis in the school, said control measures have been set up to keep such episode from reoccurring.

A portion of the measures are decommissioning of the various sullied water sources, arrangement of a solitary water source with water treatment, redesign of the eating lobby, cleaning of the inns and upgrading of the sewage framework and freedom of the septic tanks.

What's more, Idris said that the intermittent testing and retesting of water sources would even now go ahead in accordance with worldwide accepted procedures.

He likewise uncovered that four out of the 25 tainted kitchen staff that were dealt with retested still harbor a few microscopic organisms, prescribing that the four kitchen staff be made to experience advance treatment, be kept from taking care of sustenance and redeployed from the kitchen zone.

Idris reviewed that since the episode of the ailment in the school, 40 cases were conceded in different open and private healing facilities in the state, 37 cases were released after full recuperation, while the staying three were sadly lost to the illness.

The Commissioner noticed that however no new instance of the illness has been accounted for since the keep going case was released on the April 18, 2017, he cautioned that sporadic cases may in any case happen due to multi-microbial nature of the malady event.

He asked proprietors of schools in the state to guarantee strict consistence to individual and natural cleanliness by guaranteeing arrangement of safe water, proper reject transfer, lead of sustenance handlers' test for kitchen staff and nourishment sellers semiannually and nonstop observing of water and sewage treatment plants and urge understudies and all to guzzle the way of life of customary hand washing with cleanser and water.

In the interim, government solidarity schools have been entrusted to take all the more genius dynamic measures to secure the lives of understudies endowed in their care.

The Acting Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. Husseini Adamu, gave this mandate while pronouncing open a workshop on "Training in crises/crisis readiness and reaction" for Vice Principals (Special Duties) in the North Central, South East, South and South West geo-political zones in the nation.

Husseini expressed that the reason for the workshop was to, among others, make mindfulness on the significance of Education in Emergency (EIE) and what ought to be done to decrease defenselessness.

He watched that Nigeria has, in the current past, saw a heap of crises, going from flooding, fire episodes, Ebola infection pandemic to furnished clashes, which as indicated by him influence understudies more.

He noticed that the most exceedingly awful was the Boko Haram insurrection in the North East zone since 2009, which influenced five of the 104 Federal Government schools: Federal Government College, Buni Yardi; Federal Science/Technical College, Michika; Federal Government Girls' College, Potiskum; Federal Government College, Monguno and Federal Science/Technical College, Lassa.

Be that as it may, he called attention to that FGGC, Potiskum and FGGC, Munguno were later re-opened, however FGC, Buni Yardi, FSTC, Lassa and FSTC Michika are as yet shut.

He, in this way, encouraged members to get ready for the unforeseen, which requires preparing.

Therefore, he suggested that successful correspondence ought to be significant and opportune in setting up the understudies, staff and additionally the neighboring groups for crises.