The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi
Chukwu, on Friday said that there was
no reason why schools should not
reopen on Sept. 22.
Chukwu said this at a media briefing in
Lagos.
“It is for the commissioners of
education to advise the principals, at
least for public schools, as well as
private schools on when they can
reopen.
“The ministry of health is like what the
weather people are to the nation.“They
will tell you that the weather will be
sunny, stormy or there will be heavy
downpour, but they can never directly,
for example, stop any plane from flying.
“It is for the aviation people to take
the advice and combine with other
factors to decide whether flights will
take off or not.
“So, I want to make it clear that from
the technical point of view, there is
absolutely no reason why any school,
except if they have other problems that
are not medical, cannot reopen,’’ he said.
The minister said that the ministry had
no objections to schools resuming on
Sept. 22.
“So, when the minister of education,
working with the commissioners of
education, said they have revised the
opening of schools from 13th Oct to
22nd of Sept., we have nothing against
that.
“ If we did, we would have objected or
let them know,’’ he said.
Chukwu said the resumption would also
give opportunity for children to be
taught about EVD.
“It will even give us opportunity to
teach the children what EVD is all about.
“ It is going to offer us opportunity to
reinforce what we are already teaching
their teachers because the teachers
are going through programmes on how
they should handle children who are
sick.
“You notice that Nigeria has not closed
any market, church, mosque and children
follow their parents to these places.
“So it doesn’t simply make any sense
yet to continue shutting down the
schools,’’ he said.
Chukwu said that people should not
relax as EVD was being contained.
“Luckily, we are still winning. Schools
have to reopen. But that doesn’t mean
we should go to sleep.
“We know now that there is no place in
Nigeria now that we are treating anyone
for EVD, but we have not started
celebrating yet for the simple reason
that we have not yet won the war.
“We do not want surprises.
“No one for now has active EVD in
Nigeria, but that is not to say that will
be surprised if we have one tomorrow,’’
Chukwu said.

Source: http://ekeospoly.com/blog/2014/09/no-reason-why-schools-should-not-reopen-on-sept-22-health-minister-politics/

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