Nursing Service Started in 12 Community Schools of Tilottama Municipality:
A school nursing service program has been started in the community school of Tilotta municipality. The municipality has given priority to the 'One School: One Nurse' program by appointing 12 staff nurses in Tilottama Municipality.
Twelve community schools have been selected in the first phase in Tilottama as per the program started to regularize the attendance of children in schools and check their health regularly. The municipality has selected Shanti, Pashupati, Shivpur, Janabhavana, Tikuligarh, Janhit, Gautam Buddha, Janata, Janajyoti, Shankarnagar, Durgadatta, Janajagruti, and Baraulia Secondary Schools to run the school nursing program in the first phase. The municipality says that school nurses will be appointed for the rest of the community schools as well.
The concept of the school nursing service program has been introduced to improve the mental health and sexual and reproductive health of adolescents by promoting the overall health, hygiene, and nutrition of the students, said Gangaram Acharya, Chief of Education. As per the program, the nurses will provide health-related promotional services, nutrition-related services, preventive services, counseling services, health check-ups, and counseling services in the school.
In addition, they coordinate with local health organizations to conduct regular health check-ups of students, check their nutritional status, assess their health status, manage wounds, bruises, and abnormal health problems, assist adolescents in resolving menstrual problems, and chronic illness. They will also work to provide health care by making an action plan for the affected students.
Mayor Vasudev Ghimire said that the municipality is preparing to deploy the staff nurses to control the corona epidemic and treat the patients as the schools are currently closed due to the corona epidemic. The municipality is preparing to deploy some nurses in the ICU of the Shankarnagar Isolation Center, which is being prepared, and some of them will be deployed at the homes of the infected to keep them updated on their health condition.
