Care for students' health

The kitchen equipment of Lang Chanh 2 Town Kindergarten (Lang Chanh) is well-invested to ensure the safety of each meal of the children.

According to medical experts, regular health check-ups are the best way to protect the health and quality of life of each student. Through this activity, students and parents can monitor their children's health, thereby building a reasonable nutritional regimen and giving advice to their children so that the learning process does not affect their health. Regular health check-ups will also contribute to early detection of infectious diseases (if any) to help students know how to prevent and avoid cross-infection... With that meaning, every year, schools in the province plan to coordinate with health agencies and hospitals to organize regular health check-ups for students; provide consultation and health education communication to staff, teachers and students with a variety of contents such as organizing hand washing communication with soap; taking care of adolescent reproductive health; strictly implementing school hygiene to protect students' health...

Along with promoting child care and education activities, over the years, Hoang Phong Kindergarten (Hoang Hoa) has always paid attention to doing a good job of taking care of, managing student health, and preventing and fighting epidemics in schools. Teacher Ta Thi Cuc, Principal of Hoang Phong Kindergarten shared: With more than 420 students, 100% of them eat at school, so in addition to child care and education, the school pays special attention to disease prevention and fighting activities. In addition to regularly organizing cleaning of schools, classrooms, disinfecting equipment, toys, and boarding supplies to ensure safety and prevent the spread of pathogens, the school also proactively coordinates with the commune health station to periodically check the health of students such as measuring height and weight; checking ears, nose, throat, teeth and organizing vaccinations according to regulations. Through the above activities, the school detects students with diseases such as tooth decay, respiratory diseases..., and then consults and coordinates with families to promptly treat them.

According to Ms. Cuc, as a boarding school, the school pays special attention to this activity, from the selection of food, processing to the nutrition of each meal. This task is not simply to protect the health and safety of children; but also a responsibility, demonstrating the school's prestige to students, parents and the community.

Not only Hoang Phong Kindergarten, but also many other schools in the province such as Lang Chanh 2 Town Kindergarten (Lang Chanh); Hoang Luu Primary School (Hoang Hoa); Minh Khai Secondary School (Thanh Hoa City) ... the work of caring for and managing student health is also given attention by schools. According to Ms. Le Thi Thuy, Vice Principal of Hoang Luu Primary School (Hoang Hoa), in addition to coordinating with the commune health station, in the past 2 school years, the school has also coordinated with Hai Tien General Hospital to conduct periodic health check-ups for all students in the school. Through health check-ups, the school can grasp the health status of students, detect early some common school diseases such as refractive errors, oral diseases, ... even congenital heart disease, thereby giving certain priorities to them. At the same time, notify the students' families so that parents know how to care for and take care of their children's health more properly.

The results achieved from the attention of the functional sector and the efforts of schools in student health care in recent times are very commendable. However, reality also shows that the issue of caring for and protecting student health still has many limitations and shortcomings. Notably, the lack of specialized school health workers is a reality. According to statistics from the Department of Education and Training, currently, 100% of schools in the province have health workers, but they are mainly part-time. Of the more than 2,000 schools at all levels, only about 10% of schools have health workers with intermediate medical qualifications or higher, the rest are part-time accountants, treasurers, and teachers. Due to their part-time jobs, many people are still confused in implementing their tasks and have not done a good job of advising school leaders on school health work and student health care...

Schools are crowded places, so they can easily become favorable environments for diseases to arise and spread if disease prevention measures are not thoroughly implemented and the health of students is not well controlled. According to the recommendations of the health sector, early detection of some common diseases in school-age children is very necessary, helping families and schools coordinate to take better care of children. Currently, obesity, malnutrition, refractive errors, oral diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, respiratory diseases, and mental disorders have significantly affected the health of students. Therefore, school health work and regular health check-ups for students need to be given due importance. Each school should have a full-time medical staff, and the school health room should be fully equipped with medical equipment and medicine so that students receive the best care and protection. In addition, each family also needs to actively coordinate with the school to monitor health status, detect, examine, advise and promptly treat diseases to ensure health, creating conditions for students to develop comprehensively both physically and mentally.

Article and photos: Phong Sac

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