The Canarian Minister of Education, Poli Suarez, has announced the suspension of classes in non-university education centers on Wednesday and Friday – Thursday is a holiday – due to the high temperatures that hit the archipelago.
The person in charge of Education, who has justified the measure “out of responsibility”, after the demands of several centers in which fainting and episodes of heat stroke have been reported, has advanced that they will immediately begin to develop a protocol to act in future episodes. of these characteristics.
The idea is to have this protocol in a matter of days or weeks, Suárez indicated in statements to the media.
Poli Suárez has indicated that the decision to suspend classes has also been taken taking into account the maximum alert due to the risk of forest fires and the forecast of the Aemetwhich predicts that temperatures will rise even more in the coming days.