Training against Hepatitis, educational personnel from Sinaloa

Culiacán, Sinaloa.- About 3,000 sector chiefs, regional, supervisors and teachers from all over Sinaloa were trained virtually for the detection of hepatitis cases in elementary schools. José Alberto Cerón Castro, state coordinator of School and Health of the Ministry of Public Education and Culture, reported that with the support of the Ministry of Health and on the instructions of the Secretary of Education, Graciela Domínguez Nava, this training was done where the types of Hepatitis and the causes were explained. Likewise, doubts about Severe Acute Hepatitis of unknown origin were answered. “We were very focused on our teachers, sector heads, supervisors and regionals having the generalized information on the subject of Severe Acute Hepatitis, that they understood what Hepatitis is, the types of Hepatitis that exist, how they are presented in Mexico. Let them know that it is not an unknown issue for the World Health Organization, that Hepatitis is a recurrent disease, that it does exist in Sinaloa, that the most common is A and that in this hot situation there tend to be more cases. ” Regarding the measures that are being applied in schools, Cerón Castro indicated that they have reinforced sanitary filters, especially with regard to the correct use of masks and constant hand washing, as well as the review of children for the detection of any symptoms of Hepatitis. Likewise, with the support of Coepriss, review visits have been made to the schools in order to monitor the correct handling of the food purchased by minors. He pointed out that there is already a protocol, which establishes, as a first action, that in case a student presents any symptom such as yellow skin, fever, discomfort, vomiting or diarrhea, parents or guardians are notified and sent home to receive care and start their corresponding medical process. ” At the time of being in the filter, if they see a child who may present a symptom corresponding to the issue of Hepatitis, number one, they return home with their father to start the corresponding medical process. Not because we see it with symptoms means that it is a case of Hepatitis or the famous Severe Acute Hepatitis, we must do the corresponding laboratory studies so that a diagnosis can be given as such. ” As a second action, he said, is the cleaning of the school facilities and the monitoring of the other students. The child who is diagnosed with Hepatitis, either type A, B, C, D or E, may return to school once his or her doctor discharges him or her and issues a document notifying the school. We recommend you read: He pointed out that for the moment the need to suspend classes due to cases of Hepatitis has not been determined.



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