A healthy chaos reigns Phalanges

Faten Hajj wrote in the Al-Akhbar newspaper:

More than a month after the start of the new school year, the “meeting of high school trade unionists” warned of the chaos that reigns in education “in matters of health prevention, which has been limited to useless sterilization until today and the wearing of masks, while social distancing was limited to high schools without others by school buildings that are not prepared for it. What is even scarier is the way students travel from their homes to schools. high schools through buses full of them without being monitored or monitored. ” He pointed out that “the health education plan that has been approved seems to be practically based on the theory of herd immunity, and what this deliberate concealment of the number of Corona injuries among teachers and students indicates, since the number of injuries in the The educational body has reached hundreds, in addition to various martyrs, while it was more appropriate for those in charge of the educational plan to prepare electronic platforms for distance education before the school year, similar to the private sector that provided this.
The meeting stopped at the PCR tests “that teachers pay for in private hospitals, while the Health Ministry has neglected its promises to insure them for free and the State Employees Cooperative refuses to insure them as well.”
The Director of Counseling and Guidance at the Ministry of Education, Hilda Khoury, denied that there is a cover-up of the injuries, since “each case is studied in its own state and a measure is taken at the same time until the school or school closes. high school”. Khoury pointed out that there is a tendency to launch a website that will keep track of the number of injuries among teachers and students, and that anyone can log in at any time to see the latest news. With regard to the Corona exam, Khoury acknowledged that there is “suffering among teachers and students for doing it for free, as previously promised by the Ministry of Health,” noting that it is not allowed to incur the cost of the medical report and the PCR exam given the current economic crisis.
The General Director of the Employees Cooperative, Yahya Khamis, explained to “Al-Akhbar” that “the cooperative covers the PCR examinations from the beginning, and finally, issued a written memorandum, to organize the matter, in which he requested the employees of the employees’ cooperative apply the examination fee of the Ministry of Health, which amounts to 150,000 pounds, provided that the examination is accompanied by a prescription from a specialist in respiratory or bacterial diseases “, noting that the cooperative” cannot cover the exam except in cases of extreme need, since it includes 375 thousand members and beneficiaries, and if all decide to take the exam only once, then that requires more than 55 billion lire, that is, the entire budget of the cooperative for drugs, and therefore we cannot cover everyone who has a risk in mind to have a safety examination. After Health Minister Hamad Hassan promised teachers and employees to take the exam free of charge, it became clear that the guarantor bodies will take over, while the latter, according to Khamis, suffers, like other bodies, for lack of funds and limited budgets.