“Your Children are Our Most Valued Treasures”
Tarsus SEV Elementary Schools
We are very well aware of the importance of entrusting your children to someone who will value them and protect them as much as you do. At Tarsus SEV, you will find the strong adherence to the requirements for the physical health, safety and comfort of children, and these services are provided by the professional staff.
There is a resident school doctor who follows up the medical status of the teachers and students. A full time nurse also is present at the infirmary during the school day.
Health services at Tarsus SEV starts from the living facilities. The first prerequisite is to make sure that the physical conditions comply with health and hygiene standards. The main duty of the medical staff is to follow the "preventive medicine" principles which will prevent the medical problems, which requires regular training, inspection and supervision.
General Health Services
• Training on healthy nutrition habits
• Checking the products on sale at the canteen and served at the cafeteria for health standards
• Monitoring student development, battle with obesity
• Vaccination, keeping a record of student vaccinations,
• Anti-smoking campaigns and awareness raising,
• Management of epidemics,
• Ophtalmologic examination,
• General examination,
• Medical examination of student athletes.
Topics Covered in the Health Training:
• Healthy nutrition,
• Period of adolescence, sexual physiology,
• Sportsman health,
• Personal hygiene,
• Contagious diseases
Therapeutic Medicine:
• Examination of patients,
• Consultation, and cooperation with specialists where required,
• Minor surgical procedures,
• Dressing,
• Vaccination,
Records and Statistics:
• Keeping an electronic database of medical information, records of vaccinations and medical examinations of all members of the school community
• Coding the diseases and the reasons for consultations
• Mapping the school development statistics in the prevention of obesity; evaluation of body/mass index and percentile, graphing and reporting the data.