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NON-PHARMACEUTICAL INTERVENTIONS.
NON-PHARMACEUTICAL INTERVENTIONS THAT SCHOOLS MAY
IMPLEMENT TO SUPPORT EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY
CONTAINMENT OF A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE?
Communicable disease among the children in sentinel city has become a pandemic, contributing to the absenteeism of 30% of children in schools. Covid-19 is an infectious disease affecting most of the people in sentinel city, leading to the absenteeism of infected children in schools. Positive cases of the COVID- 19 respiratory virus, a public health emergency, have been discovered in each of Sentinel City's neighbourhoods. The virus has swiftly expanded over, and it is now considered a pandemic in sentinel city (Mesenburg et al., 2021). Understanding the communicable agent, the mode of infection to others, the period of incubation, the clinical presentation, the period of transmissibility, the epidemiological data, management and control and the principles and guidelines for pandemic responses and preparedness are necessary for a successful pandemic response. Planning for pandemic reactions must be coordinated and adaptable to handle a variety of personnel and activities with changing requirements. In the intervention to manage the outspread of covid-19 virus in sentinel city, the schools should educate the children on the importance of seeking medication after some of the symptoms to avoid spreading to other children (Spinelli et al., 2021). Seeking early medication is a way to prevent and manage the spread of the disease to others. Separation of the infected from the healthy children should be done in class to prevent the spread of the disease. Regular hand washing,
covering of the nose and mouth during sneezing, avoiding contact with the infected and taking boiled water are some of the interventions the schools can educate the children and the community to stop the outspread of infectious diseases in the city (Rizvi et al., 2021). Schools in the city can implement different interventions to prevent the outspread of infectious diseases such as the Covid-19 virus among children and also to protect the community. One intervention is to encourage infected children with communicable diseases to cover their nose and mouth with clothing when around people or when sneezing to avoid spreading the disease to others (Spinelli et al., 2021). Teachers should educate children on the importance of regular hand washing. Hand washing will help to prevent the spread of the communicable diseases among children. Hands are washed to be germs-free by use of soap when washing because people often touch their mouth, noses, and eyes with infected hands without knowing. Hand washing with soap and detergents will helps avoid infections. Germs and infectious viruses enter the human body through the mouth, nose, and eyes, leading to diseases (Loftus et al., 2019). The foods and drinks we take can be contaminated with infectious germs from unwashed hands while preparing and consuming them. Loftus (2019) argued that uncleaned hands can lead to the spread germs to items like the children playing toys, handrails in schools and the school study tables before spreading to other children's hands when they come in touch with them and touch their mouth, eyes or nose. Thus, killing germs by washing of hands with soup helps in the prevention of diseases such as respiratory diseases Covid-19 virus, eye and skin infections and diarrhoea. The schools should strategize different hand washing stations for the children, encouraging them to wash their hands to prevent infections. Different communicable diseases are spread through hand greetings or hand touch with someone with the infection.
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