This Article is From Feb 11, 2010

Panel recommends doctors in schools

Panel recommends doctors in schools
New Delhi: Schools in the national Capital may soon have to put in place plans for medical emergencies with a child rights body recommending specific infrastructure, including appointment of doctors and paramedics, to deal with such situations.

The recommendations by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR), which is a statutory body, came months after death of a 17-year-old student of Modern School in Vasant Vihar after suffering an asthma attack at the school premises.

DCPCR chairperson Amod Kanth said all possible medical emergency situations which can take place at a school were analysed by an expert committee appointed by his organization and accordingly recommendations were made to deal with such situations.

"We have recommended appointment of a doctor at each school along with para medic staff. If the schools cannot appoint doctors, then they should have visiting doctors," Kanth said.

Following wide spread public outrage after death of Akkruti Bhatia, who died on the way to a hospital in April last year, Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, had announced that Government was framing guidelines for schools specifying the kind of medical facilities they would require meeting emergencies.
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