The News Review:
- Schools prepare for swine flu
- Flu season is coming and H1N1 is shaping planning
- Clinton Praises Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa
- Montana Governor Discusses Concerns About Cost of bama’s Health …
Schools prepare for swine flu
Chicago Tribune
As a precaution school administrators are quickly changing how they handle sick children. Students who report for class with a temperature of more than 100 degrees will be sent home without exception and not permitted to return until a day after the fever breaks. School nurses will track absenteeism and report kids’ symptoms to county health departments a practice that began last spring when the. Teachers aides and cafeteria servers will continue to drill students in common-sense precautions such as washing. While much about the emergent H1N1 strain remains a mystery so far it has hit young children especially hard.
Flu season is coming and H1N1 is shaping planning
The Virginian-Pilot
Make plans for what to do if a student has to stay home sick or needs to be picked up from school. Children with other medical issuesFor children younger than 5 or with chronic health problems such as asthma diabetes heart disease metabolic conditions or neuromuscular disorders parents should check with their doctors if their children show flu symptoms. If parents are concerned about a child?s health they should call the doctor for advice but in the vast majority of the cases flu is best treated with fluids and bed rest. Call a doctor if: A child?s fever lasts longer than five days or if it goes away and then returns. Your child is listless or has no interest in playing or other activities. Your child has difficulty breathing or exhibits fast hard breathing. Your child is inconsolable ? that is irritable and cannot be calmed down.
Clinton Praises Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa
Voice of America
The 300-bed research center and hospital opened in the capital’s Masina neighborhood two years ago focusing on maternal and child health with a 70-bed Women’s Health Center. Secretary Clinton visited the pediatric wing accompanied by founder Dikembe Mutombo. She told university students after the visit that Mutombo’s commitment to public service stands as an example for the Democratic Republic of Congo and for Africa. “This continent and this country have seen humanity at its worst but you have also seen it at its best” she said. “You see it in the many acts of kindness between people who help each other even though they themselves have so little.
Montana Governor Discusses Concerns About Cost of bama’s Health …
FXNews
And the president is absolutely correct. We don’t have to pay more to bring these new people in because we’re already paying for those people. If you have got someone who doesn’t have health care insurance and their child gets sick you can bet that they put them in a car and they go to the emergency room and somebody pays that $5000 for that emergency room visit. It wasn’t the person that was uninsured. It’s the rest of the pool. So if we can bring people in and give them some kind of a — a health care system so that they get the children to doctors to clinics to make sure that they’re getting their wellness checkups that people go to a doctor before the — the disease is advanced — look we know a little bit about managing money in Montana as you know Neil. Forty-eight states are experiencing budget deficits California 48 percent Alaska 30 percent.
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