Face-to-face School Preparation, 8,000 Teachers In Makassar Vaccinated

Mayor of Makassar Danny Pomanto (intermediate doc.)

MAKASSAR - As many as 8,000 teachers in Makassar will receive vaccinations. The preparations were made to reopen the face-to-face teaching and learning process in schools in July.

"We are preparing the infrastructure in advance", said Head of the Makassar Education Office, Nielma Palamba, to VOI, Tuesday, March 23.

The plan is that the Makassar City government will restart face-to-face schools for elementary and junior high school students. For this reason, soon, there will be a vaccination program for all teaching staff within the Makassar City Government.

Nielma continued, the vaccination program for thousands of teachers was the initial target of the Mayor of Makassar Danny Pomanto to re-implement the teaching and learning process in each school. The teachers are the top priority.

"The Mayor (Danny Pomanto) first program vaccines for all teachers until May", she said.

Vaccination is not only given to elementary and junior high school teachers. Two thousand other contract teaching staff are also confirmed to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in preparation for face-to-face school.

"Hopefully it can be on the track, we plan on Saturdays and Sundays with 1.00 people each. The total number of our teachers is 8 thousand and contract teachers are around 2 thousand people", she explained.

Regarding the technical implementation of this vaccination program as well as the teaching and learning process at school later, the Head of the Makassar Education Office said that she would start the entire process based on the technical guidelines made by the Makassar City Government.

Meanwhile, the location chosen by Moh Ramdhan Pomanto, who is currently leading the Makassar City Government, chose Karebosi Field because she saw that the number of teacher participants who participated in the vaccination was quite large.

"It will be carried out in Karebosi (vaccination) and the implementation of the school face-to-face following the technical instructions", she concluded.

It is known, Makassar City has 569 elementary schools consisting of 364 public and 205 private elementary schools. Meanwhile, the number of junior high schools is 570, consisting of 365 public and 205 private schools.