The School Clinic

• 10 Teacher-clinicians• First aid treatments for simple cases• Refers to PCGH and ICC

The School Clinic

• The more common problems– Fever– Respiratory infections– Diarrhea is not that common– Malnutrition (undernutrition)

The School Clinic

• Basic hygiene – another pressing issue– Dirty fingernails– Lice– Dental carries

• Students are taught to maintain a clean classroom

Some cases

Some projects

Some projects

The school population

The school population

The school population

The school population

The school population

The school population

The school and its population

• Out of 2988 students – around 20% (549 kids) of the kids come from Ilugin– 227 from phase 1– 193 from phase 2– 129 from boracay/riverside

• Classes: weekdays– 3 sets of 4 hours each– Science – 60 minutes

Recommendations

• Empowerment of the school clinic and the teacher-clinicians– Clinic – no role in the surveillance of the school’s

health situation aside from working closely with the schools nutritionist and the feeding center

– No solid data on prevalent diseases– No current policies or programs on promoting or

surveying the health situation

Recommendations

• Empowerment of the school clinic and the teacher-clinicians– School clinic: Health Surveillance Center (HSC)• Responsible for implementing policies/programs• Purely run by the teacher-clinicians• Not intended to interfere or change the existing

curriculum or the other systems

Recommendations

• Empowerment of the school clinic and the teacher-clinicians– School clinic: Health Surveillance Center (HSC)• In-charge of record-keeping and statistics• In-charge of training

Recommendations

• The pilot class– “experimental class”– Class whose adviser is a teacher-clinician

Recommendations

• Proper hand hygiene education and implementation– Constant education and re-education– Constructing a long rectangular sink outside of the

classroom fully equipped with faucets, running water, and proper drainage

– Posters about proper hand washing

Recommendations

• Spot checks– Done by teacher-clinician– random– fingernails, hair, clothes, and other areas of focus

of certain hygiene programs– Positive reinforcement and sanctions

Recommendations

• Health education basics– Information campaigns– Students, parents, faculty and staff

Recommendations

• Health education basics– Dengue education– Fever basics– Diarrhea primer