School health services in Rawalpindi cantonment

ABSTRACT

To study the existing infrastructure provided for public as well as private school health services in Rawalpindi cantonment. A descriptive study. The study was carried out in Rawalpindi cantonment from Aug 2008 to Feb 2009. The study was carried out in two different categories of schools comprising public and private schools. The results of the study did not depict an encouraging picture and 100% of schools, whether public or private, had no medical officer / school nurse employed. School health system assessment and a comparison of public and private sector schools showed that no organized services are available for the students and most of the schools lacked fully available services of a medical officer and the concept of annual or periodic examination required still more concrete efforts