A significant part of educational institutions does not have adequate protective structures and shelters.
Only 19% of educational institutions in Ukraine have appropriate protective facilities for participants in the educational process and are ready for face-to-face education. This was reported by the DSNS press service.
According to the department, more than 26,000 institutions, where about 7.6 million schoolchildren and students receive their education, need shelters. Instead, 2.9 thousand institutions have their own protective structures. Another part uses converted buildings of a different purpose for shelter.
“As of July 15, 2022, only 11% of educational institutions (that's about 2.9 thousand) have their own protective structures of civil defense, which can accommodate only 12% of participants in the educational process (about one million people). Another 10% of educational institutions (about 2.5 thousand) with 9% of participants in the educational process at them (about 720 thousand people) organized shelters in their own dual-purpose buildings. Another 2% of institutions (about 471 institutions, in which 110,000 schoolchildren and students study) organized shelters in the buildings of other business entities,” the State Emergency Service said in a statement.
Thus, 19% of educational institutions are ready for the beginning of the full-time education educational process, in which almost 20% of the participants of the educational process will receive their education.
The department notes that the head of the State Emergency Service, Serhii Kruk, instructed to take comprehensive measures to speed up the inspection of buildings and structures of educational institutions in order to provide shelter for the participants of the educational process at the regional level, as well as, together with local authorities, to ensure the arrangement of the objects of the fund of protective structures of civil protection .
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