(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
As part of the efforts of PHCC to promote school health services, improve the physical, psychological health of students and to support their abilities, Dr Badriya Al Malki, Assistant of Executive Director for Continuing Care and Integrated Services at PHCC, has declared that through 275 male and female nurses, 266 schools have been included in the PHCC services.
Dr Badriya said that PHCC is working within the strategic plan to activate the basic role of primary health care in providing all the consultations and health services by nurses in all schools covered by health care services. Where the school represents the second and most influential environment in the life of the child after his home, with many children suffering from health or psychological problems entering schools, the male and female school nurses are representatives of health care, who face the challenges of managing student care during school day.
Al Malki has added that school nursing contributes to the assessment of development and growth of students, which is being conducted since the beginning of the school year in order to control the state of nutrition, growth and chronic diseases. Where male and female nurses of PHCC believe in their role, and consider themselves part of the education in the lives of students by educating them and introducing the good habits of a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, they attach great importance to the community's health, a commitment that should also be realized by the new generations as part of the country's aspirations to achieve Qatar vision 2030.
Buthayna Al Naqeeb, School Nursing Supervisor at PHCC, has pointed out that within the National Program to promote school health, and as part of the policy of unifying health efforts with many partners, which aims at raising the level of knowledge and health of students, a series of meetings were held between the PHCC team - School Health, and officials of the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, to complete the implementation of the national program, in order to promote health. She has pointed also to the importance of cooperation with several Ministries and other bodies and associations, which works for the success of the programme, where work is being done with the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Municipality and Aspetar, in addition to the Qatar Diabetes Association.
Al Naqeeb has added that PHCC has started to implement the Electronic file system at 60 public schools for this academic year 2017-2018, noting that the programme was implemented in 30 public schools last year 2016-2017. The system provides a comprehensive overview of patient history during medical counselling, thus facilitating the prescription and monitoring of prescriptions, and the application of laboratory tests, radiation tests, and archive images, as well as accessing to the student's medical file information in a precise manner, which cannot be seen contrary to the paper file.
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