translated from Spanish: They suspend classes at Torreón’s school to provide psychological care

Starting Monday, the Cervantes de Torreón School will open its doors only for students, academic and administrative staff to receive emotional and psychological care; classes will be suspended, reported Roberto Bernal, Secretary of Health in Coahuila.
After the school shooting, he said this will be until “we see that they are in a position to resume their activities, psychologists and psychiatrists will give us those guidelines,” he said.
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Likewise, with the help of psychologists, stressors, post-trauma depression will be detected; “you have to give them emotional support,” he said.
This Saturday, the various units of the state government were convened to implement the orange protocol from which the training of 40 psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and doctors to attend from Monday to the Cervantes community.
With the support of A Teola’s crisis-care specialist, as well as the University of Salamanca, the post-traumatic emotional containment protocol with students and teachers of the Cervantes College will be developed in Spain.
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The Undersecretary of Emergency Medical Care of the Ministry of Health in Coahuila, Erick Varela Cortés, reported that from next Monday will start the operation “Safe Backpack” in thousand 300 schools in the Laguna Region.
It noted that the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), through its regional coordination, would conduct this review operation in conjunction with teachers and parents. This aims to prevent the introduction of weapons, as well as banned substances into schools, he noted.
Varela Cortés indicated that the operatives in which the Secretariat of Public Security will also work in a coordinated manner will be carried out at random, as “police men would not reach out to visit all the schools”.
Relatives, friends and students of the teacher who was murdered yesterday in Torreón, Coahuila, by an 11-year-old student at Cervantes College, attended her wake in Gómez Palacio, Durango, the place from which she was originally.
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‘Miss Mary’, as she was known to her students, had been teaching English for more than two decades.
The 11-year-old boy who attacked classmates yesterday and the teacher was guarded in a funeral home in Torreón, Coahuila.
With information from Notimex
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Original source in Spanish