The Department of Municipal Education (DAEM) of San Antonio, reported Thursday of the suspension of classes for this Friday In the Port Mobile schools and the José Miguel Carrera Bicentennial Institute, after the death of a quarter -year student for possible meningitis.
According to the municipal distribution, the death of the adolescent, student of the Port Mobilizers Collegeit happened yesterday at the Claudio Vicuña hospital in the commune of San Antonio, in the Region of Valparaíso, where part of the educational community was concentrated, as well as the authorities of the area, which until then did not know the causes of death of the young man.
However, during this day it was known that the preliminary exam to which the student was subjected “Throw the death as a result of possible meningitis”said the DAEM of San Antonio, through a statement.
They added that the news motivated the activation of Health protocols, which included the concurrence of the Regional Ministerial Secretary (Seremi) Health until the educational establishment.
-The health seremi seeks to “direct the corresponding proceedings to safeguard the health of the rest of the educational community”, activating preventive protocols among the course classmates, teachers and relatives of the dead young man, those that will be monitored.
From the DAEM they add that the suspension of classes in the Port Mobilizers College and at the José Miguel Carrera Bicentennial Institute They are “protection measures to deliver tranquility to the educational community.”
In the case of this last educational enclosure, they specify that the suspension was adopted since it in it “A relative of the deceased young man is enrolled On Wednesday, who is being treated and monitored by the Seremi de Salud ”.
“The measures adopted are framed in the sanitization and total cleaning of both educational enclosures And the suspension of classes from the two schools for this Friday, April 25, resuming their functions on Monday 28 of the current month, ”they say.
