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.
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 organisation 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 told PTI.
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 to meet emergencies.
A government-appointed committee had found glaring lapses on the part of Modern School in handling the case of Bhatia and said that proper health care facilities at the school would have saved the girl.
Kanth said he will submit the report of the 15-member committee soon to chief minister Sheila Dikshit. The DCPCR chief said the CBSE wants to circulate the recommendations to all its schools in the country.
"It will be upto the government to issue directives to the schools. But we will ask the schools to comply with the recommendations which are very important for well being of the children," Kanth said. He said DCPCR had constituted the committee, comprising renowned doctors, psychiatrists and other experts to examine the medical infrastructure in the schools and recommend steps accordingly.
"The committee has recommended standard operating procedures for all medical emergencies, be it an insect bite or a snake bite. The recommendation encompasses all aspects of a child's health, including physical and mental well being," the DCPCR chief said. Kanth said all the schools will have to have tie ups with a neighbouring hospital to deal with medical emergencies.
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