TOP 5 PRE-SCHOOLS WITH MOST NUMBER OF HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH CASES 2018

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Over the past 4 months thereabout, I have been keeping close tab on the hand, foot and mouth (HFMD) situation in Singapore’s preschools. Though I did not start from the beginning of 2018, I do compiled more than 3 months worth of data to put forward a list of top 5 preschools with prolonged HFMD transmission.

How is Prolonged HFMD Transmission Calculated?

There are 2 criteria to be met before the Ministry of Health (MOH) will flag out a preschool as having prolonged HFMD transmission.

Having 10 or more cases of HFMD over a continuous period of at least 17 days; OR
13% or more students in the preschool suffering from HFMD over a continuous period of at least 17 days.

In more severe cases, the preschools will be ordered to close for 10 days if:

The school has more than 16 cases of HFMD over a continuous period of at least 25 days; OR
13% or more students in the preschool suffering from HFMD over a continuous period of at least 25 days.

MOH releases this data twice a week, usually on a Wed and Fri. Hence, when a preschool appears more frequently on the MOH release, we can infer that the particular preschool has a higher/longer transmission period.

Top 5 Preschools with Longest HFMD Transmission

RankingPreschoolAddressCount
1My First Skool Mega Early Years Centre (EYC)2 Punggol Drive18
2My First SkoolBlk 55 Toa Payoh Lorong 516
3E-Bridge Pre-School LCCC78 Edgedale Plains12
4PCF Sparkletot446 Yishun Ave 118
5Learning Vision @ Hwa Chong673 Bukit Timah Rd7

Data compiled from 15 August 2018 to 31 December 2018

What This Means?

Let’s take the #1 My First Skool (MFS) Mega EYC as an example. It was listed on the MOH site 18 times. Remember earlier we said that MOH releases the data twice a week? Hence, it is safe to say the MFS Mega EYC has prolonged HFMD transmission for at least 9 weeks.

If it takes at least 16 days before the preschool is singled out by MOH, the actual duration of HFMD transmission in the school will be 9 weeks + 17 days, = 80 days! Hence, in 2018, My First Skool Mega EYC had at least 2.6 months when it was having HFMD transmission.

Caveat

As mentioned earlier in this post, data collected was from August till December 2018. The picture might not be such if figures from January to August were included.

Hopefully this compilation will help parents be more aware of whether the childcare centre/kindergarten your child is attending has prolonged HFMD transmission, which will then help you to observe for HFMD symptoms in your child.

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