Survey raises red flag about teachers’ health if exposed to Covid-19 – DispatchLIVE

Naptosas executive director, Basil Manuel, said the survey was aimed at establishing the health status of teachers.

What weve discovered is that there is a large number of teachers that have underlying health conditions.

At least 50% of teachers have some illness or the other whether it's hypertension, diabetes, HIV, TB, lung disease, cancer and so on. But of those, at least 25% have more than one condition, which puts them in a high risk category.

But what mitigates against that is the seriousness of the underlying sickness, so given that only about 5%-7% of teachers have serious hypertension, even though 25% may have hypertension, only 5% may have serious hypertension.

Manuel said of course we are concerned because a lot of these are lifestyle diseases.

The survey also found that about 2,160 of female teachers reported being pregnant, accounting for around 3% of respondents.

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