Health Room or (HOKENSHITSU) a Japanese word, is a room where treatment of minor first aids takes place in the Schools just like the Sick bay in the Senior high schools in Ghana.
However health rooms has 8 more additional functions which includes measurements: a place where height and weight of the child can be taken.
Resting place; An isolation place for children to rest when the need arises.
For counseling: Serving as a good place for counseling services when there is the need.Particularly issues concerning adolescent girls and the rest.
For Learning: The same place serving as a learning center with a library stocked with books, leaflets, information, education and communication materials on health education.
For actiity where health education takes place
A shelter : Serving as a safe place for some children at certain times of the day.
A home : Some children also using it as home depending upon the situation on a particular day.
A lounge : Can also sit there for relaxing at certain times.
The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Education Directorate with support of the Municipal SHEP Coordinator, Mr. Godfried Caeser and assistant from the JICA and it’s Volunteers in the area were able to establish this Health Rooms at 3 public basic schools and 3 Private Basic Schools in the area.
On our visit to Atua St. Paul Presby JHS in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality Municipality, we met the school’s SHEP Coordinator, Madam Margaret M. Avadzi attending to a student, Chautey Joyce Teiko who reported ill during classes hours.
Madam Margaret M. Avadzi in an interaction with the team acknowledged that the initiative has helped in handling situations that could have warranted the student going home in the past for medical attention.
She continued to say that the several trainings given all the SHEP Coordinators in the Schools by JICA in partnership with Ghana Education Service has helped to bring them up to speed in handling first aid and other health emergencies that are likely to happen during school hours.
She concluded by appealing to the Government and other well wishers to Support the GES and the Districtand Municipal SHEP Coordinators to be able to establish more of such facilities which does require much resources in all the basic schools in the country to help manage the health situation of both the pupils and teachers.
