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Jawahar Bala Arogya Raksha

Child Health Improvement Programme {CHIP}

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”.

Health promoting schools

 Promotes health and Prevents illness in schools


 Promotes learning and prevents drop outs
 Engages health and health officials, teachers, students, parents, health
providers and community for leaders in efforts to make school a healthy
place.
 Respects every child by providing life skills, healthy lifestyle
SCHOOL

The objectives of this programme will entail provision of both curative and
preventive services.

The preventive services will include

• Distribution of health cards to all children


• Awareness among all students and teachers on various health issues
• Anemia control program – Distribution of IFA tablets to anemic children for 52
weeks ( bi weekly) through teachers who are trained.
• Vaccination Programme – Provision of vaccines to children
• Training of a Nodal student who acts a link between teachers and students
and will promote concept of healthy behaviuor and overall health aspects.
• Constitution of the Child cabinet which will play crucial role.
• Biannual health checkup of children in all schools by Medical officers.
The curative services will include

• Availability of first aid kit in all schools.


• Treatment of common ailments like cough, cold,fever and stomach ache
• Dewormimg
• Eye checkup and provision of lenses and treatment for eye ailments.
• Early identification of CDs/NCDs

Content of Health Education in Schools:

This will include components like

• 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

Role of Health department

• Coordinate with Education department and Women and child welfare


department
• Build capacity of ANM and health officials in addressing the health needs of
the children in the schools
• Provision of Medical checkup to all children.
• Provision of drugs for minor ailments
• Provision of vaccines and human resource for administration
• Provision of health cards
• Build capacity of teachers in health promotion use of first aid kit.
• Arrange monthly review meeting at the cluster level to monitor and
coordinate with other departments.
• Enable students to take care of themselves and others.
• Enable students to make healthy decisions
• Ensuring provision of safe and healthy environment at schools
• Provision of referral services
• Provision of specialist services
Convergence

• 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:

 Sensitization of all key stakeholders and Officials


 Capacity building of frontline workers on issues like technical aspects
(preventive and curative aspects), Reporting,, Recording and Logistics.
 Distribution of health cards to all children
 Provision of Health screening services to all children
 Provision of treatment to minor illnesses
 Deworming
 Provision of vaccines
 Provision of Opthalmic services and lenses to children with vision defects.
 Identification of children with chronic diseases, Learning disabilities, Hearing
and Vision defects, Malnutrition, Psychological problems and refer to higher
institutions.
 Provision of health education to promote healthy life styles and prevent
health damaging bahaviours.
 Monthly reporting and monitoring

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