Engaging Young Minds in Health

Participants

40 children and 5 caretakers

Year Started

2020

Project Leader

Dr Subrat Kumar Bhattamisra

Activities

  • Conducted basic hand wash education with the children to help them understand importance of hand hygiene and 7 steps of effective hand washing, especially in times of pandemic.
  • Conducted general awareness on importance of proper showering to maintain general health of hair and skin.
  • General hygiene education
  • Medication safety training for caretakers to help them be more organised and aware of medication expiry, dosage and management when prescribing them to the children.


Outcome

  • Children will practise good hygiene and will be able to improve knowledge in proper hand washing and bathing techniques in daily life.
  • Good hygiene knowledge retained by the children in the following visit in the next 6 months
  • We see higher adoption of medication safety practice where all expired medication are disposed, all medication are organised and labelled properly.
  • At least 50% of the caretakers will know where to find the expiry date on medications, importance of doing periodic medication check and the proper way to dispose expired medication


Goal Relationship



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