Various aspects related to the safe school return process for the year 2023 were announced on Friday the 10th at the Special Commission for Emergency Monitoring and Disaster Risk Management – Covid 19, chaired by legislator Juan Mori Celis (AP).
During the work meeting, Carmen Márquez Ramírez, Vice Minister of Institutional Management of the Ministry of Education, presented herself, who reported on the prioritized actions, jointly with the Health sector, for the return to face-to-face classes in educational institutions nationwide. , ensuring biosecurity measures and inoculation against COVID-19 (4th dose and bivalent vaccine) in students, teachers and administrative staff.
Regarding vaccination for schoolchildren, he said that they have been carrying out awareness campaigns that allow more schoolchildren to be vaccinated who have not yet been vaccinated and for those who need to complete their doses. He also pointed out that they are implementing the application of human papilloma vaccines and that enrollment for the year 2023 is not conditional on the implementation of vaccines in its various variables for students.
“All the necessary health and food measures are being put in place to guarantee a safe, healthy and adequate return of all educational institutions in the country. Regarding vaccines, the responsibility lies with the Ministry of Health, with which we have a level of work coordination for massive and complementary vaccination,” said the MINEDU official.
At the end of the intervention, the vice minister, the head of the working group, expressed her concern about the current state of the infrastructure of hundreds of educational institutions in the country, which require her attention in their preventive maintenance and operation to guarantee better conditions. study to schoolchildren.
He also referred to the need to attend to and guarantee the 2023 school year in emergency zones in various regions of the country, which have experienced natural disasters and require their maintenance or reconstruction of their educational units, among other aspects related to said social and educational reality.
In this regard, the vice minister, Márquez Ramírez, said that MINEDU has been working corporately to meet the requirements and needs that allow an adequate return of schoolchildren to their classrooms and pointed out that his sector allocated more than 195 million soles to all Educational Management Units (UGE), from all over the country to attend to the preventive maintenance of their educational centers as they have been doing to date.
Lima, February 10, 2023
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