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Vision Premium healthcare services for all school students, enabling them to achieve and maintain optimum health.
Mission To provide comprehensive healthcare services to all students of Government schools.
Overview The School Health Service was established by the Ministry of Health in conjunction with the Ministry of Education with the view of ensuring optimal health for Government school students, thus enabling them to attain the most from their education. This is facilitated by a cadre of healthcare professionals, including a School Heath Nurses, Dental Nurse, Trained Clinical Nurse and Health Aide who canvass the schools on a regular basis, providing both preventive and curative services.
The School Health Service functions in 3 inter-dependent areas
1. Routine Medicals
2. School Children’s Clinic
3. School Health Nurses’ weekly visit
Objectives
1. To establish good working relationships between school, health team, social workers and home.
2. To carry out annual physical examinations on each child in Grades 1, 6 and 10.
3. To treat minor ailments and refer other abnormalities for appropriate treatment.
4. To maintain a high level of immunization in school children.
5. To detect and follow-up “at-risk” students.
6. To conduct health education in the schools.
7. To maintain appropriate dental healthcare programmes.
8. To collect, collate and analyze data relating to school aged children, so as to support evidence based programming. <<see history>>
Contact Us
Poncianna Hill Building, Meeting Street
The Department of Public Health
P. O. Box N-3730
Nassau, The Bahamas
Telephone: 502-4892, Fax: 502-4874 |
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