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Students of SJK (C) Poay Wah in Tanjung Bungah, Penang, already know the daily regiment of sanitary inspection to check if they can have hand disease, foot-and-mouth disease ( HFMD)
The school gates before the dawn sky can clear up, they are greeted by five to six teachers wearing surgical gloves and masks.
Teachers check for ulcers and rashes in their mouth cavities.
Another team takes children's forehead temperature with infrared thermometers.
And yet others are shining torches on the open palms of children to look for revealing red blisters that will have clear liquid or sometimes green pus just under the skin.
If children pass all the tests, they receive squirts The director of the establishment, Lian Poh Lai, said that the daily checks of the HFMD had started Monday since the beginning of the spread of the disease.
She said that the teachers took turns to arrive earlier for duty, while the parent-teacher association of the school provided the equipment and the hand sanitizer.
She said that the PTA provided infrared thermometers without contact. temperature controls would not result in cross – contamination between students if HFMD was present at one of them.
"We will proceed to the basic examination until the epidemic is under control.
" Our teachers were trained "Lian said that even the operator of the canteen had requested information on Chinese herbs to make "refreshing" concoctions for the students.
She said that the Department of Health visited the school on Tuesday and gave a briefing on HFMD and carefully checked students.
HFMD is caused by a virus and its symptoms include fever, rashes in the palms or feet, and ulcers in the mouth and tongue, as well as infection of the upper respiratory tract [19659002] The disease is typical of the types of Coxsackie A16 and Enterovirus 71 (EV71), and the virus spreads when there is contact with the saliva, blisters and stools of patients
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