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Ministry of health plans Covid-19 vaccination in schools as cases start piling

Health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is planning to start vaccinating children aged 12 to 17 against COVID-19.

Although the majority of COVID-19 vaccines were initially approved for use in adults aged 18-years and above, an increasing number of vaccines are now also being authorized for use in children. So far, countries have received approval to use Pfizer-BioNTech in children ages 5-15 years old, and full approval to use in people ages 16 years and older

Health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, told URN that after two years of closure, they don’t plan to send children back home due to infections but use other strategies such as periodic random testing and vaccination to manage transmission.

But she didn’t divulge details of when exactly or which vaccines they are going to use in the exercise.

As of Friday, a voluntary joint task force comprised of parents, students and scientists formed to ensure quick identification and isolation of cases in schools reported that they had undertaken a pilot study in four schools in Kampala where they picked more than 200 positive cases.

Dr Haruna Kigongo who heads the task force says when they got an alert from one of the schools, they found a sick bay full of children with symptoms consistent with COVID-19. In fact, he says the administration had turned another room into a sick bay to cater for the numbers. At this school, they picked a total of 102 positive cases.

According to Ministry of Health guidelines, schools are supposed to isolate positive cases, enroll them on treatment and release them once they get a negative test. To do this, they rely on school nurses. But generally, these have so far not been specially trained to offer care for this highly infectious disease like it was for other health workers in the country that underwent training at the beginning of the pandemic.

Experts are now calling for a mandatory requirement for schools to have nurses that can easily identify and test COVID-19 if they are to quickly isolate cases. A group of laboratory technologists based at Makerere University have already offered to train school nurses in COVID-19 rapid diagnostic testing and mild case management at no cost.

Dr Samuel Majalija, the Deputy Principal at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Bio-security that is spearheading the training told URN in an interview that the 475 volunteers who have been trained and certified to conduct testing include a few nurses in Kampala schools.

While many of the trained testing personnel have not yet been deployed anywhere or called to volunteer, Aceng said they are strengthening their school surveillance network and will continuously use the trained personnel as the need arises.

Currently, schools are conducting testing at their own initiative and if they are to use the service of the trained volunteers, they have to cater for their logistics such as their transportation and sometimes buy test kits since the team is entirely depending on donations to operate.

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2 comments

  1. Renowned Scientists have clearly spoken out against injecting those experimental jabs into our children since they’re not under any threat of death from Rona when given regular treatment, and they quickly develop natural immunity.

    The adverse effects on the other hand are responsible for majority of deaths of the jabbed “labrats” and no one knows what the future holds for them: neurodegenerative disease, clotting, myo- & per-icarditis, immunodeficiency dyslexia,, Parkinson’s… the list is endless, meanwhile BigPharma and their devilish cohorts are raking in billions and intend to take in more as they develop treatments for the above adverse effects.

    Globally, cases are piling up over the non-hippocratic behavior of the health systems and blatant murder and injury of innocent and often ignorant human beings in total defiance of the Nuremberg Code but stand warned, y’all being watched and noted. The reward for Crimes against Humanity is DEATH.

    Keep your experimental non-vaccines that neither protect, nor prevent transmission of the virus but cause more harm away from our Children. Omicron has unravelled the myth spun and perpatuated by BigPharma, MSM and Soulless Politicians.

    Respect our Bodies.

    Basop… Beware..

    • I support your view Jeff. I think now where it has reached, parents should get ready to remove their children from schools if need be rather than subjecting the children to this deadly experimental thing. But even as ministry is still contemplating, schools are already ahead. They are asking HSC students to produce vaccination cards and that was as of last week.

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