KOCHI: With the government planning to reopen schools, private players offering disinfection and sanitisation services in the city expect an increase in work orders. Many schools and colleges have started booking the services of such firms to prepare for the reopening.
Moreover, these firms provide training to cleaning staff about the protocols and disinfection they have to follow once the schools start functioning. Many agencies are drafting customized disinfection packages to the schools ahead of the reopening.
All the classrooms and other premises in the schools need to be sanitized. Moreover, once the schools are reopened, sanitation and disinfection need to be done on a regular basis and it will be a tedious task for school authorities.
Agencies offering such services have mushroomed since the pandemic and most of them are of high demand now. Agencies, which usually take quotation for cleaning homes and office spaces, are now upgrading their machines and technologies to meet the requirements of schools.
Juby Paul, general secretary of Kochi Metro Sahodaya and principal of ToC-H Public School, Vyttila, said that the prime importance is given to ready the school for safe conduct of the classes. He said that most schools may have to seek the help of professional agencies, at least in the beginning stage, to get the disinfection done.
Most agencies now offer three-step disinfection which includes ultra-low volume (ULV)-fogging treatment followed by a high-pressure steam treatment for the entire institute area including classrooms, washroom, and all indoor and outdoor areas. Moreover, schools are opting thermal fogging treatment (fumigation treatment) through which a dense fog treatment will be done especially in the outdoor areas.
Sajeev S R, one of the partners of Clearsky Solutions, a disinfection service provider at Cheranalloor, said that they were preparing an action plan to approach school managements to get the contract.
“We started our business two years ago and have been getting so many work orders from commercial spaces. As schools will be reopening now our focus is on getting orders from school in the city,” he said.
