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"Campus Security and Safety Awareness Day"

By Ms. Vivian P. Manila, SSC Safety and Security Officer
Posted: Monday June 15, 2009 09:55 AM

The talk on Campus Security and Safety Awareness attended by the Grade School and High School faculty members and some employees of the school

Last May 29, 2009 was "Campus Security and Safety Awareness Day" at St. Scholastica’s College. The activity, which was held at Sr. Ehrentrudis Hall was attended by grade school and high school faculty members and other employees of the school. 

Dr. Bernard B. Ramirez of Management Association of Security and School Officials (MASSO) and Dr. Gina Pardilla of the Department of Health were the invited speakers.

Dr. Bernard Ramirez, MASSO Representative

Dr. Ramirez discussed the school campuses particularly in Manila, which were virtually arenas of student activism.  He said that protection of life, limbs and property remains a real problem that compelled school authorities to seek the assistance of the national as well as local law enforcement agencies to contain or neutralize the threats during the height of the student activism. Students, employees and even faculty members are targets of communist propaganda.  He also affirmed that common security and safety problems in the school are communist activities like recruitment, teach-ins, fund raising, sabotage and demonstrations, drug pushing and addiction, theft and robbery, fraternity and gang wars, vandalism, snatching, pickpocket, book lifting, bomb or bomb threats and fire.  He also discussed the importance of safety and security that used to combat insecure condition brought by risk, threats and hazards.  He explicated the major aspects of security, which are physical, document or information and personnel.

Dr. Pardilla, on the other hand, talked about the preventive measures to counteract Influenza or otherwise known as the A (H1N1) virus.  According to her, this is a respiratory disease caused by type A influenza virus, which causes high levels of illness and low death rates in swine (pigs and hogs).  The virus is known to occur during the late fall and winter months, with similar outbreaks in humans.  She further explained that swine flu in human does not normally infect humans.  Rather, sporadic human infections with swine flu have occurred and occur in persons with direct exposure to pigs. The signs and symptoms for human are fever, lethargy, lack of appetite, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.  Virus transmission can be done directly from pigs to humans by close proximity to infected pigs such as in pig barns, livestock exhibits, and housing pigs at fairs.  Human to human infection, on the other hand,  results from coughing, sneezing, touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose afterwards.

Dr. Pardilla explicated that swine H1N1 flu virus is not the same as human H1N1 virus and that vaccines for human seasonal flu cannot protect humans from swine H1N1.  She further clarified that swine influenza viruses are not transmitted through food.  She also updated the group about the status of A(H1N1) in Mexico that as of April 17-23, 2009 there are 854 cases of severe typical pneumonia including 59 deaths.  According to the report, close contacts affected health care workers, family members with age ranging from 25-45 years old. 

Dr. Madeleine Buraga, SSC Senior Medical Officer

At present the countermeasure done by the national and local agencies are by monitoring through thermal scanners at the airports of people going into our country from other countries especially where swine flu cases had been reported.  Foot baths were placed in the airports especially for travelers from the US and Mexico.  Travelers manifesting symptoms of swine flu infection will be brought to the RITM, SLH or LCP.  

On the last part of Dr. Pardilla’s presentation, she presented the Department Memorandum Order # 2009-0134 coming from Francisco T. Duque, III, Secretary of Health, regarding the Technical Guidelines, Standards, and Other Instructions for Reference in the Pandemic Response to Influenza A(H1N1). This memo enclosed the issuance of Interim Guidelines No. 10, for the Prevention and Control of Influenza A(H1N1) in Schools.

The guest speakers with SSC administrators and faculty (from left: Ms. Vivian P. Manila, SSC Safety and Security Officer, Dr. Buraga, Sr. M. Vicenta Anuran, OSB, Vice-President for Administrative Affairs, and Prof. Lucris Agnir-Paraan, emcee of the program

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