Lifeline School Health program is a preventive and curative child health initiative organized by a multidisciplinary child health team.
Vision:
To ensure the health and well being of the Nigerian school child by working in partnership with all key stakeholders involved in the care of the child.
Mission:
As innovators of Lifeline School Health Program, we would lead and partner to improve the health of children.
Objectives:
Curative Services
Your wards can access the following services under the curative service:
- Outpatient Services
- Inpatient Services -Admission facilities for children (Pre-school to 18 years)
- Ambulatory Services
- Surgical Services
- Sickle Cell Club for Kids and Adolescents
- Asthma Club for Adolescents
Public Health Services
- Updating your wards immunization
- Health Surveillance program
- Health Consultation Support in Formulation of School Health Policies
- Health Promotion workshop for parents, children and staff
- Health screening service for school staff
- Health Consultation Services for children with Special Needs.
- Careers Screening for House helps, Nannies and Cooks
Workshops: Creating formal training workshop for teachers, therapists, school nurses, doctors, health policy makers and voluntary workers on school Health programs.
Research
- Needs assessment of current baseline school health services
- Evaluation + Monitoring of new interventions in school health services
- Epidemiological studies in areas related to school health.
Networking
- Networking with Stakeholders of School Health Services both in the Local and International arena
- Networking with NGO’s and external Donor Agencies
Some membership benefits:
- Supervision of school health clinics
- Early detection of children with learning difficulties
- Screening tests for Vision, hearing and others specific tests as needed
- Updating missed immunizations
- Acute paediatric service for referred sick children
- Health Education on Preventive and curative paediatric topics
- Health talks to children at school and at other venues as desired
- Publications on child health