"Health Emirates" It confirms its readiness to start the new academic year
Dubai, August 21/ WAM/ The Emirates Health Services Corporation confirmed its readiness to receive the new academic year 2025-2026 through a comprehensive plan aimed at promoting students’ health and consolidating a safe and sustainable educational environment, reflecting its commitment to support the continuation of the educational process through an integrated system of high -quality health services.
His Excellency Dr. Essam Al -Zarouni, Executive Director of the Acting Medical Services Sector at the Foundation, confirmed the progress of the development of the health support system in schools to be more able to respond to the needs of students.
He said: “We are keen that our schools are safe and stimulating environments for learning by providing integrated health services that keep pace with national standards and contribute to protecting students and enhancing their health, to ensure that the new academic year is a starting point towards more excellence and achievement.”
The Foundation’s preparations, which oversee 312 government schools and 333 school clinics throughout the country, included supporting these clinics with qualified medical and nursing cadres and providing them with all necessary supplies, to provide health care services completely over the school year.
In this context, the Foundation issued a “return guide for schools”, which includes a comprehensive set of health guidelines directed to students and parents, to help them start the year with health and safe steps.
The Foundation strengthened the comprehensive examination program for students by adding new examinations that contribute to early detection of diseases and health problems, in proportion to the various ages, as well as organizing training programs for the health staff to raise the level of readiness and the rapid response to any health emergency.
The last academic year has witnessed more than 95 thousand students of vaccinations included in the national immunization program within the school clinics supervised by the institution. The Foundation continues this year its awareness campaigns calling for the completion of vaccinations on time and the follow -up of healthy lifestyles based on eating balanced food, maintaining personal hygiene and adhering to daily preventive habits to enhance students’ immunity.
For her part, Dr. Shamsa Lootah, Director of the Public Health Services Department at the Foundation, stressed the importance of integrating roles between the family and the school, and said that providing a healthy school environment requires close cooperation between parents and educational and health staff and our messages for this year focus on the role of the family in establishing daily health behaviors of children, starting with interest in balanced nutrition and adequate sleep, and to promoting awareness of personal hygiene Preventive practices that protect their health and support their educational career.
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