BOSETU Calls for Vaccination of Form 4's before enrolment
Sunday, March 14, 2021
BOSETU Calls for Vaccination of Form 4u00e2u20acu2122s before enrolment
Rari says at a meeting with the Covid Taskforce and the Ministry the trade Union called for the vaccination of the Form 4’s as an effective control measure. He added that research has found that although students are mainly asymptomatic, vaccination would further reduce chances of spread from student to student, or where it happens the infection would be much milder, the benefits of which would be felt by members of the communities and families, and teachers that the students interact with on daily basis.” That way, vaccination of Form 4’s is meant to save the teachers, the families of students, and members of the communities that these students habitually interact with as healthy looking covid carriers who infect them”, Rari explained.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...