By following up their condition periodically in the school clinic and qualifying teachers

Parents of students with chronic diseases demand special care for their children in schools

Parents of students provided their children with smart devices to monitor diabetics and their condition during school hours. From the source

Parents of students in public and private schools called on their children's school administrations to provide greater attention and care, especially for their children with chronic diseases, especially those with high blood sugar, by following up their condition periodically in the school clinic, and qualifying teachers to know the symptoms.

They reported that they provided their children with smart devices for diabetics, which enabled them to follow up on their children's health condition while they were at school, which overcame challenges that their children faced during classes, such as high or low blood sugar, and pointed out that they face simple challenges represented in changing the classroom teacher, in addition to reserve teachers who are unaware of the nature of the symptoms that appear on their children during the crisis of their health condition.

On the other hand, school administrations confirmed that students of chronic diseases receive special care by teachers and nurses of school clinics during the school day, to avoid the deterioration of their health condition, by organizing periodic meetings with parents, with the aim of training teachers to deal with their health condition, and to know the dangerous symptoms of their disease to deal directly with the student, and to prevent any complications that require their transfer to a hospital.

In detail, the guardian of a student suffering from diabetes, Fatima Al Ali, confirmed that the challenges that a child faces at school when he has a chronic disease are many, and they become more difficult with the change of classroom teachers, and the lack of knowledge of the new teachers about the condition of students, and how to deal with them, which affects their health, especially with the emergence of symptoms that the new teacher may not know, and does not deal with them immediately, but with the development of medicine and the modernity of blood glucose meters, I installed an "insulin pump" that It relies on a smart system to stabilize the glucose levels of the diabetic.

She added that this device is a pump that adjusts insulin doses, corrects cases of high blood sugar levels automatically, according to the patient's need, and is directly linked to a parent's phone, and sends instant notifications of her daughter's blood sugar readings, which reduced her daughter's frequency to the school clinic.

The parent of a student suffering from diabetes, Abdullah Mohammed, said that his son, who studies in a private school, suffers almost daily from different readings in sugar, sometimes he arrives home and has a very high sugar, and most of the time his blood sugar is low than normal, which made him communicate with the school administration, to provide greater attention and care for him, by following up his blood sugar level by the clinic.

He added that the student who suffers from chronic diseases may be bored of visiting the school clinic on a daily basis to follow up on his condition, which prompted him to install a smart device (a smart chip in the hand of the diabetic), linked to an insulin pump responsible for pumping insulin into the body, according to the patient's need, and one of its features is that it sends notifications to the parents' smartphone, and issues alert sounds that make the teacher realize that the student is facing a problem, and he must immediately send it to the school clinic.

Noura Abdullah Al Balushi, a parent of a primary school student with diabetes, said: "I had to install a smart device that detects blood sugar levels while my son was at school, so that I would immediately inform the class teacher of the need to send him to the school clinic."

She added that smart devices that detect blood sugar levels require the presence of Internet networks connected to it throughout school hours, and the challenge she faced was the frequent interruptions between her and the device, but the school administration understood the matter, by allowing her to bring a wireless "network" device to connect it with the smart pump, and from the interruption of her performance during her son's presence at school.

On the other hand, an administrator at a private school in the Emirate of Fujairah, Alaa Mohammed, stressed that maintaining the safety of students while they are at school is a joint responsibility between the nurse, teacher and students' parents, stressing the importance of constant communication between the guardian and the specialist doctor in the school clinic, in addition to the need to attach recent health reports, and provide adequate explanation to the specialist doctor in the school clinic, in order to provide special care for students of chronic diseases.

She pointed out that the school is keen on teachers in the classroom to communicate with students of chronic diseases and respond to their cases of illness appropriately, in terms of taking the necessary measures and precautions to ensure their comfort and safety, while they are at school, in addition to providing direct contact numbers between the parent, the specialist doctor in the school clinic and the classroom teacher, so that any worrying symptoms can be reported on the student.

A doctor at a school clinic for a private school in the Emirate of Fujairah, who preferred not to be named, confirmed that the school allocates an integrated clinic to follow up on the health status of students, in addition to counting students of chronic diseases and following them on a daily basis, by visiting them in classes, keeping their medicines in the clinic, giving them the daily doses allocated to them, and providing medicines and needles designated for them in time of emergency.

She pointed out that communication is made with the families of students with chronic diseases to know the latest developments in the health status of their children, with the aim of informing teachers of the symptoms and causes that require informing the clinic nurse to attend the class, in order to examine the student.

Parents of students:

"We provided our children with smart devices to monitor their health while they were at school."

Schools:

"We communicate with the parents of students with chronic diseases, to identify symptoms, and train teachers to deal with them."