TGIF but HMFD!

As daddy's golf game's in the afternoon, I need not bring an unwell Renee to pick Eileen(although Renee's woken up at 8am, not long after me). She cried when I left as she had remembered that I was to bring her along 'cos I've thought earlier that daddy would be out in the early morning...

I also took the opportunity to show daddy my displeasure and when he asked if I'd be using my car today, I told him to replace his own with a 'smaller' car if he's afraid of driving his to JB :D - these are considerations he should have made in the first place especially when safety is the main concern. Anyway, I may need to bring Renee to get some stuffs, so NO WAY is he going to use my car today.

Received 2 emails from Kinderland on HMFD, aiyoh! It is a notice on the closure of that session of the affected class for 1 week upon 2 cases of HMFD :

1st email(on Tuesday):

Dear Parents
HFMD
I have 2 reported cases of HFMD in the school. Both cases were made known to us on the 29th of September. This is from our Nursery class – Studio 1. On our end we will continue to maintain high hygiene standards in the school.

This includes:
1. Regular washing of toys
2. Disinfecting all equipment and furniture in the classroom daily
3. Washing the toilets, twice daily
4. Air the rooms in the afternoon.
5. Daily classroom checks on the children

We will appreciate it if you co-operate by keeping your child at home if he/she is not feeling well. Once your child is detected with fever in school, he/she will be isolated and you will be asked to bring your child home. Please do reinforce good hygiene habits at home as well.

Once we have 2 cases of HFMD in a particular class, our standard procedure is to close the class for 7 days to break the infection cycle. Any subsequent new cases reported from the same class, will mean that we will extend the closure. In such a situation, the class teacher will keep you updated.

I appreciate your attention to this concern and I also seek your co-operation in controlling the spread of this disease.

2nd email(Thursday):

Dear Parents
UPDATE - HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
Thank you for working with us in containing the infection.

While I have two more cases of HFMD reported to us, one from the previous batch of reported cases have informed us that he has recovered. Therefore our total active case to date is 3. We have decided to extend our closure for the affected nursery class (1st session-studio 1 by one more day. Class will resume on Tuesday 7-10-2008).

I continue to urge you to remain vigilant and maintain high hygiene standards both in and out of the home.

We will continue with our daily cleaning and disinfecting of the classrooms and the environment.

Haiz, really wonder how does this disease come about...(I had thought that usually the centres/schools will only close if the no. of affected children hit more than 10? Anyway, I'm happy with this procedure)