Medical Guidance

The school has an efficient and a well-equipped infirmary, where a trained nurse endeavor to provide health care to the students. All the parents should fill up the annual health status record form in Almanac. Medical check-up of the students is conducted from time to time and record of every student is maintained.
All parents are requested to impart health education to their children.
1. Maintain personal hygiene and cleanliness. (Trimming of nails, regular hair cut, wearing neat and clean uniform etc.)
2. Ensure that they sleep eight hours a day.
3. Ensure they exercise daily.
4. Have a balanced diet, nutritionally rich in proteins.
5. Drink water which is either boiled or filtered. All students are advised to bring their own water bottles from home.
6. Avoid consumption of ice-creams, other milk products and eatables from road-side vendors.
7. De-worm children at least once every year- advice to be taken from their family physician.
8. Get a dental and an ophthalmic check-up done once every year.
9. A student returning to school after suffering from an infectious or contagious disease should
produce a certificate of fitness permitting him/her to attend the school.

Students suffering from the following diseases must observe the prescribed period of quarantine before returning to class.

Chicken Pox: Till the scabs fall off completely.
Measles: Two weeks after the rash disappears.
Whooping cough: Six weeks
Cholera: Till the child has recovered completely.
Mumps: Until the swelling has gone.
Jaundice: Six weeks

Students suffering from infectious diseases like Conjunctivitis, Dermatitis, Scabies, etc. should not be sent to school.
Students suffering from chronic diseases like Asthma, Epilepsy, Rheumatic Heart Disease, etc. are advised to be under continuous medical supervision of a Specialist Doctor. History of their illness must be filled up in the Almanac along with the details of treatment being taken.