A comprehensive training program to promote health awareness among students, in cooperation between School Health Directorate and UNICEF

Damascus, (ST) – The School Health Directorate at the Ministry of Education, in cooperation with UNICEF and under the scientific supervision of the World Health Organization (WHO), began implementing a comprehensive training program in health education, as part of precautionary measures to tackle the Coronavirus and with the aim of raising the level of health awareness among students.

According to the ministry’s statement, which SANA received a copy of; the program includes ten important health topics through a three-day central workshop that includes training 50 doctors from all governorates. The program also followed up by the establishment of 32 local workshops to train health assistants  and literate women working in school health departments of 857 in all governorates on the implementation of the health education program in all schools.
The ministry indicated that the program comes in conjunction with allocating half an hour of health education per week for each class in the first cycle of basic education.

 Raghda Sawas