Deputy Director of the HCMC Department of Education and Training, Duong Tri Dung suggested leaders of educational facilities strictly implement Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control measures in order to ensure safety in schools in the 2022-2023 academic year.
The new academic year of 2022-2023 has yet begun, but many parents in Ho Chi Minh City have been asked to register for textbook purchase by their children’s school. Noticeably, on the registration form are not only official textbooks but also workbooks and other reference materials, learning tools.
The Department of Culture and Society of the HCMC People’s Council on January 11 had a working session on in-person learning for students in grades 1-6 with the Nguyen Thai Hoc Primary School and Chu Van An Secondary School in District 1.
The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has upended the lives of children and their families around the world. Although no serious complications have been recorded in children as in the elderly and adults with underlying medical conditions, the illness has also caused unpredictable consequences for children, so parents need to be very careful of protecting children during the epidemic.
Thanks to the increasing administration and inspection tasks by local authorities, along with proper human resources training, food safety in schools has witnessed positive improvements, commented participants in the yesterday conference ‘Summary of Food Safety Management in Schools in Ho Chi Minh City from 2017 – 2019’.
Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien advised parents to take their kids to nearby medical clinics for immunization because the rate of vaccination incident is low.
Cases of measles amongst kids are escalating as children hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City admit many patients while medical experts warned the spread of a measles outbreak in the community if kids are not vaccinated fully or too young to have a shot.
In an effort to raise the rate of medical insurance coverage amongst students, the Ministry of Health sent its document asking schools to increase information of insurance policies and important roles of healthcare insurance to students and their parents.
Though the country just started the season of hand-foot-mouth, medical workers warned parents of many serious cases of infections and the patients had to use ventilators.
