WEST Goroka Primary School, in Eastern Highlands, is the first to engage a
professional medical doctor to provide health care for children and teachers. Dr Susanna Andrias, a former lecturer at the Taurama Medical School, has been providing health care for the past three weeks after she was engaged by head teacher Tony Koyangko. Koyangko said healthy children would have good concentration in the classroom, leading to good academic results. “We want to have healthy children to help them remain focused as healthy minds will absorb skills and knowledge well,” he said. Andrias thanked Koyangko for considering children’s health as an important aspect of learning. She said the children had been given hookworm medicine. “Children miss out on classes when they are sick and when they go to the public hospitals, they will wait in long queues,” Andrias said. “But with medical service available in the school, they are getting first class treatment. “We know that a healthy mind will allow them to concentrate well in class. “I give motivational talks to the school children, which helps them to remain focused on what they want to become later in life.” West Goroka Primary School is one of the largest schools in the country and provides counselling services through the non-government organisation the Family Voice.
Daosa Richard
8/20/2014 09:30:24 pm
The doctor engaged is a private doctor so if she is doing it for free than thats great, however if it is a business contract arrangement than i wonder how a primary school can afford to hire a private doctor to do that. Comments are closed.
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