Health Report

What a year this has been! For faculty, staff, and students within ISK, the ISK Health Office has remained a crucial part of the support and management of various health-related aspects emerging because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This would not have been possible without tremendous support from the COVID-19 Response Team (CRT) and other pertinent external stakeholders like MoH, CDC, and UNICEF representatives within the ISK family.

While the COVID-19 pandemic situation in Kenya has been extremely fluid, the Health Office has strived to keep abreast of the happenings, and continuously updated the CRT and Leadership team in order to support school-wide decision making.

We are happy to share our successes, challenges, and activities throughout the year.

Successes and Activities

o Successful training, coordination, and rollout of faculty, staff, student, and community 4W’s trainings through: • Digital training materials (slideshows and videos)

• On-campus posters and signage outlining the Four W’s • Continual reminders via email,

The Mane, The Pride, and the

ISK website

• Janitor training that was reinforced using our ISK Safety

Checklists

o Successful revision of the Pandemic

Response protocol in line with emerging new COVID-19 information.

o Setup of an isolation tent within the school behind the Health Office.

o Formulation of a CRT (Crisis Response

Team) as outlined in Section 2 (page 12) of the COVID handbook version 6 to inform the administration of related COVID-19 issues that might arise. o Successful development and maintenance of a COVID-19 spreadsheet to follow up on staff and students in isolation and quarantine. The status list projects staff and students with COVID-19 related absences from various divisions for members of the

CRT to actively follow up on. o 93.3% of faculty and staff received their first and second dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination supported by MoH. o Planning and subsequent roll out of onsite rapid antigen COVID-19 testing that began in April- end of school year. This has been done in collaboration with Meditest

Laboratory. o COVID-19 handbook developed in line with the latest information on the

COVID-19 pandemic and procedures implemented throughout the school community. We are currently at Version 6, thanks to the tremendous support from the CRT, Advancement Team, and COVID

Compliance Officer. o Introduction of care packages delivered to students, faculty, and staff confirmed to have COVID-19 at their homes. They are supported by the Wellbeing Coordinator and Advancement Team.

o Introduction of COVID-19 weekend on call schedule, whereby one Health Office staff works collaboratively with a member from the ADMIN team to support ISK families reaching out with confirmed/suspected cases.

o Implementation and routine revision of COVID communication letters and flowcharts.

o Biweekly catch-up meetings with MoH and

CDC representatives.

Challenges

o Lack of consistent reference documentation from MoH to support decision making as needed.

o Delay in timely communication while contact tracing between parents, students and staff.

We continue to encourage the ISK community to keep following the World Health Organization COVID-19 health and safety guidelines.