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The Sharjah Women’s College Mobile Health Clinic Is Ready To Roll Again











The Mobile Health Van will be launched again in the academic year 2009-2010, starting from October 16th, following success and warm welcome by all schools it visited in Sharjah and Ajman over the academic year 2008-2009.

Scoring tremendous success in this unique experiment, the mobile health van, which was started by a team of dedicated health sciences students, is ready once more to reach as far as it can into the community.

The month of November will also see the mobile clinic coordinate its activities with Dubai Health Festival, which is being organised by Dubai Healthcare City to maximise their outreach and provide the students an opportunity to learn from the expertise offered by the DHCC staff.

The health awareness campaign has been a useful experiment in getting senior health sciences students to step out into the community and share their knowledge and polish their newly learnt medical skills The team has planned a detailed programme of workshops and lessons on personal hygiene, dental health, H1N1 awareness, anemia, diabetes, good nutrition; these workshops will be supplemented with basic testing that includes blood glucose, hemoglobin, BMI measurements.

The eager students have thoroughly enjoyed learning the basics of good health and hygiene in a fun way from their equally eager to impart elder national sisters. An activity that generated much enthusiasm in the previous run was the ’Glo germs’, a fluorescent dye that makes the germs on the hands glow under the UV light. The young faces were horrified to see the bugs on their hands and the message of ’hand washing’ surely hit the mark. With the world battling the H1N1 pandemic this activity will surely help the efforts of the Ministry of health to contain this disease in the UAE.


 

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