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Parents are requested to impart health education to their children to enable the following:
- Maintain personal hygiene
- Eat a balanced diet.
- Drink clean water.
- Follow a regular exercise schedule.
- Have adequate sleep of at least 8 hours.
Parents are expected to:
- Immunize their children as per the doctor’s advice.
- Not send children suffering from communicable/infectious diseases like conjunctivitis, chicken pox, measles, influenza, mumps etc. to school till the prescribed period of abstinence is over.
- Produce a doctor’s certificate permitting the child to attend school after recovering from an infectious or contagious disease.
- Inform the school authorities in writing if the child is suffering from a chronic disease stating the history of illness and special precautions to be taken if any.
- The procedure school follows if a child becomes sick and doesn’t need to visit the hospital, is to put him/her in school Sick Bay with proper treatment.
Do note that:
The school has a well-equipped medical room and a qualified attendant to provide first-aid to a child in case of need.
- A comprehensive annual medical checkup of each child is done by qualified doctors to monitor the child’s physical growth.
- A medical card to record the health status and growth status of the child is maintained and a report thereof is sent to the parents for information and necessary action.