An incident of teachers not attending to a student who collapsed in the school was reported from a leading school in Embilipitiya in Sri Lanka on November 23. The teachers were afraid due to COVID-19 and the incident took place on the first day after the school re-opening. The teachers said they had not been informed about the actions to take in such situations and no protective equipment had been supplied to schools.
The relevant 14-year-old grade-nine girl fell due to a difficulty in breathing. Fellow students helped her. However, no teacher came to help her.
Ordered by the teachers, the state-owned Suwaseriya ambulance service took the girl intoEmbilipitiya hospital and admitted her to the Emergency Treatment Unit.
Ceylon Teachers' Union spokesman Joseph Stalin said that the Ministry of Education had failed to send guidelines to the principals to handle such situations. "The Ministry sent a letter dated on 19th November advising to set up advisory committees comprised of relevant officials before starting schools but the time was not sufficient for that because the schools were re-opened on 24th. Although the Minister of Education Prof. G.L. Peiris and Secretary to the Ministry Prof. Kapila Perera says they have allocated money for COVID-19 sanitary facilities, the schools have not received them."
Stalin further said that the Ministry had not consulted principals and teachers properly before the re-opening of schools.
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