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Our children are our heritage; the Andhra Pradesh state has special interest to ensure
that every child gets quality education, health services and nutrition. This programme
adds on a new but an important dimension and ensure every child remains healthy
through a programme that looks at promoting health, preventing illness and early
detection and prompt treatment of illness as and when they occur.
This school health program endeavors to ensure that every child remains healthy by
ensuring that every school becomes a “Health Promoting School”.
The objectives of this programme will entail provision of both curative and
preventive services.
• Personal hygiene
• Hand washing technique
• Hand washing at critical times( after defaecation and before eating) at
primary level
• Menstrual hygiene at elementary levels
• Reproductive health including HIV at secondary level
• Health
• WCWD
• Education
• Social and Tribal welfare
The nodal officers from the key departments will coordinate among
themselves in delivery of holistic package of health services to school children.
The operational structure at the district level will include key officials
DC/DEO/DMHO/PD ICDS ,and at Cluster level and PHC level with convergence
cascading down to all levels including frontline service providers.
Modus of Operation: