Kubang Pasu District

Second session (Evening Session)

Date: 12th July 2009
Time 2:00pm
Location: School Unit, District Health Office Kubang Pasu, Jitra
Topic: Excursion to KKIA Jitra, School Unit, briefing on School Health Programme
Person in charge: JK Zulfadzilah bt. Ahmad

In the afternoon, we were briefed on the function of School health unit which is responsible on vaccination of the school children, personal hygiene, food and nutrition monitoring, Programme Doktor Muda and PROSTAR. There are 55 primary school, 25 secondary and 44 preschools in Kubang Pasu district. A School Team is comprised of 2 nurses, 1 attendant, 1 driver and MA (STUDENT)
Standard 1 students:
• OPV, MMR & DT is given
• Talk on personal hygiene, methods of brushing teeth and visual assessment.
Standard 6 students:
• Rubella is given to female students ( will be stoped in year 2010)
• Boys are checked for colour blind.
Form 3 students:
• ATT is given and physical examination is carried out

After the briefing, we went to the School Health Unit to observe the method of vaccine storage, 2 types of thermometer which are MINMAX THERMOMETER AND DIAL THERMOMETER used to monitor the temperature of the vaccine, temperature chart. Cold chain and the method and the importance of maintaining the required temperature of the vaccine was explained by KJ Zulfadzilah bt. Ahmad.