The building of the Institute of Arts of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre (RS), was reopened on Monday (12). The place was closed for 14 days, after a teacher was chopped by a yellow scorpion.
UFRGS reported that there was uninience and the removal of debris in classrooms.
The first floor of the unit will continue to be banned, but the academic and administrative activities have already returned. According to the university, ceramic classes, held at the place where the incident with the teacher took place, will be relocated to another campus.
In addition, UFRGS has announced that it will make “new collection of materials and other sanitary care in order to avoid the creation and movement of scorpions, as directed by the Control and Preventive Plan, whose construction was recommended by Health Surveillance.”
Remember the case
A teacher from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul was stung by a yellow scorpion on Tuesday (29). The animal was at the UFRGS Arts Institute, which is located at Rua Senhor dos Passos, Historic Center of Porto Alegre.
According to the university, the teacher was referred to the Emergency Room Hospital, where he was medicated.
The classes in the building and the administrative work were suspended.
According to Environmental Surveillance, the region of the center of the state capital is the one that concentrates the largest number of scorpions in the city. In 2024, 399 capture notifications and yellow scorpion views were recorded. Of the total, 348 occurred in the historic center.
This content was originally published in a UFRGS building is reopened after a teacher was chopped by yellow scorpion on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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