We, in Bhavan believe that the health of our students is essential if they have to excel in academics and it is our goal to ensure both. Having the facilities of a dental clinic and dispensary in school premises is important and beneficial. I feel that regular health checkups and awareness about health issues is far reaching to every child’s healthy growing up which makes them not only wholesome and fit but also responsible children. I appreciate the initiative of Simply Health Plus as they not only bring awareness on physical health, but also work to improve mental, physical and social health of the students by conduction workshops on character building, spiritual health, adolescent health, stress management etc. for staff and students.

To ensure complete safety of children during the school hours, our school in collaboration with Simply Health Plus has a team of in house doctors working within the framework of the school curriculum to give medical facility and first aid to students as and when required. For the last four years the school has endeavoured to have regular general check ups, eye campus and dental check ups for school students by the team of qualified and expert doctors. The school is working with the mission to develop a health personality of each and every child. To give tips on the importance of Eating Healthy food, Good manners and developing good habits and right attitudes, power point presentations are shown to the students regularly followed by lectures from qualified doctors. Recently in April 2009, the school held a workshop for adolescent girls under AEP education to apprise them about the growing age and hormonal changes occurring in their bodies. Being an AEP master trainer myself, I regularly organize such programs in the school to allow the students to voice their concerns in a healthy and protected environment. The school, in collaboration with Simply Health Plus now also has an ambulance ready in the school campus for any emergency situation. In a nutshell the school is heading with a mission to provide health and congenial environment to the school students.

Parents leave their children in our care in the schools and their well-being and health is our major concern. We have established a full-fledged dispensary and a dental clinic complete with dental chair courtesy of Simply Health Plus in our premises to promptly meet any kind of emergency. Regular lectures on topics such as safety, burn management, asthma awareness, common poisons, head injury, sport safety, etc are delivered through powerpoint presentations and reinforced by the school doctor from the team of Simply Health Plus by means of inter class quiz competitions. We take Health very seriously here.

The schools must come forward voluntarily to take care of any medical emergency and ensure children’s safety by having in house facilities which we created in 2007 in our school. The comprehensive health care package provided by Simply Health Plus in all three Manav Mangal institutes was very detailed and meticulously planned to ensure that every child receives optimal health education. The school has recently formed a Health Force and a Health Brigade which co ordinate with the school doctor to spread the message of health.

Simply having an in house school doctor and nurse to dispense medicine was not enough, awareness on issues related to health and habit formation at this early stage of growth were the key to raising a well balanced individual. That is why a specially designed Health program is a must. We started both Medical and Dental program of Simply Health Plus in our school around 2 years back and is very happy with the results.

Health, like honesty should not be a policy but a practice, only then can it be effective. Our school can proudly declare that we “practice” health!