Coronavirus, the Puglia region establishes the permanent table ‘School and health’

Schools and classrooms closed, lessons suspended, Covid positive teachers and students, staff quarantined. The cases that involved the schools in Puglia, directly or indirectly, therefore, the inconveniences and inefficiencies caused by the risk of contagion, led the Puglia Region to establish a permanent table with the director of the regional office of the school, Anna Maria Cammalleri, to summarize the procedures to be followed by school leaders and by ASL prevention departments to better cope with this phase.

“With President Emiliano we have carried out a series of inspections in the schools of Puglia since the beginning of the school year to observe directly how they are organized and detect any critical problem, our attention to the issue of prevention of contagion is maximum and today it is strengthened with the establishment of this table“The guarantees of the councilor of the Sebastiano Leo school.

“The School and Health table will begin immediately, to facilitate the exchange of experiences and strengthen activities after the first measures taken at the national and regional level and the emergence of the first cases in schools.” explained the epidemiologist and regional adviser in pectore of health, Pierluigi Lopalco.

Thus the director of the Department of Health Promotion, Vito Montanaro: “We decided to make the comparison with the school world structural to synthesize and coordinate activities in the light of the experiences of the first days of school ”.