School health Centre
The School health centre is looked after by a qualified nurse. Medical Check-up of the students is carried out regularly and a record maintained. If the doctor / nurse is of the opinion that a child needs special medical attendance the parents are to be informed.
Parents should inform the school authorities regarding children with physical disabilities. Special attention can be paid to the concerned child. All parents are requested to impart Health Education to their children.
A. Maintain personal hygiene such as trimming of nails / hair and being neat on a regular basis.
B. Exercise regularly.
C. Sleep at least eight hours daily.
D. Have a balanced diet, nutritionally rich in proteins and milk.
E. Drink water, which is boiled or filtered. All students are advised to bring their bottles from home.
F. Avoid consumption of ice creams, other milk products and eatables from roadside vendors and kiosks.
G. All children should also be:
- Dewormed at least once every year, on the advice of the family physician.
- Have a dental and ophthalmic check-up once every year by a well qualified dental surgeon and ophthalmologist.
- Immunized as per the schedule given :
| Health Care | |
| BCG | DPT |
| Oral Polio | Measles / MMT |
| Tetanus - Booster dose to be given between 7-16 years of age and also to be given if injured. | Typhoid - Every 2/3 years (with oral medicine/injections) |
| Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Meningitis, Chicken Pox | |
| Students suffering from diseases such as Chicken pox, Cholera, Measles, mumps. Whooping cough and jaundice must observe the prescribed period of quarantine. | |
Students suffering from infectious diseases such as Conjunctivitis, Dermatitis, Scabies etc. should not be sent to school until they have fully recovered.
Students suffering from chronic diseases etc. are advised to be under continuous medical supervision of a doctor, who is a specialist in the concerned field. A history of their illness must be filled up in the Almanac, along with the treatment and the names of medicines prescribed by the doctor. Parents are also advised to keep the school nurse informed of any medical/ health problem which may have developed during the academic year.
The medical history of the student must be filled up by the parents in the join of separate sheet.
