School Clinic

The medical staff is always present during the school day, responsible for seeing and attending to any students who are feeling unwell or have an incident during school hours that requires First Aid treatment until collected by a parent, guardian, or carer.

Annual health screening for early detection of health problems through vision and hearing screening, BMI and growth monitoring as well as regularly monitoring of chronic conditions.

Provide individual health care plans for students with chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, epilepsy.

The School Clinic provides basic First Aid treatment and gives simple medicines to treat fever or pain (which are authorised by the Dubai Health Authority –DHA- and with parental consent).  We are not licensed to and do not provide treatment such as giving IV fluids/injections, or do investigations such as blood tests or swabs.

Due to the prevalence of nut allergies, parents are encouraged not to send any products containing nuts to school (including all nut butter and peanut butter). We are also a pork-free school.

We are able to give prescribed medication to students, whether it is a short course or daily medicine, as long as:

1. We have a prescription from your Doctor with details and instructions
2. The Medicine is provided to the clinic in its original bottle/casing, with clear and correct labeling (please do not provide medicines in single syringes or tupperwares/bottles which are unlabeled)
3. Parents are required to sign the DHA consent form for the administration

Note: Students are not to carry any medicines with them in their personal belongings, as it is important for us to be aware if any medicines are taken in case of any allergic or anaphylactic reactions.

If your child is ill and absent from school, it is important for you to submit documentation from your Doctor as to the nature of the illness so that the absence can be declared as ‘Medical’ and hence, authorized. It is also important to provide the school clinic with documentation of any diagnosis from your Doctor so that the clinic can keep this in our records, and more importantly, keep informed of any potential outbreaks in the school. As per DHA guidelines, we are only allowed to inform parents of cases if we have confirmed documentation from your Doctor, and there are 2 or more confirmed cases in a class. In order for us to keep abreast of potential outbreaks and prevent the further spread of illnesses, we, therefore, ask for your cooperation to provide relevant documentation so that we can inform parents accordingly.

In order for us to maintain a healthy school environment, and keep our community safe from cross-infection, we ask parents to please read through our School Illness Policy. It details the guidelines and advice for parents to follow when their child is ill. We ask for your support to adhere to the policies to minimize the spread of illness within our school community.