Six Schools Send Children Home Over Red-Eye Disease Outbreak

Six Schools Send Children Home Over Red-Eye Disease Outbreak.

Six Schools Send Children Home Over Red-Eye Disease Outbreak: A total of Six schools in Busia County have decided to send their learners home over the red-eye disease outbreak.

Speaking to the press on Thursday, the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Secretary General Moffat Okisai confirmed that the affected students were quarantined.

The government has therefore been called to distribute red-eye treatments to school dispensaries to ensure that medics could attend to the students.

List of affected schools include; Amagoro Girls High School, Malaba Primary School, and Mundika Boys High School

Okisai Outlined,”Quite a number of schools have been affected. We have Amagoro Girls, Malaba Primary, Mundika Boys, Moding, and Nambale Boys have been affected,”

“It is just a matter of us taking preventive measures. Affected students have just been quarantined and isolated from the rest and after two days or so, they will resume the learning exercise,” okisai added.

The red-eye disease first broke out in Tanzania before it spread out to Mombasa County. It has symptoms such as red-coloured or pink-coloured eyes,  itchiness, discharge of pus or mucus as well as crusting of eyelids or lashes.

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