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Prevention and awareness.
On the occasion of the start of the school year, the Ministry of Health, in coordination with the Ministry of National Education, organizes from September 21 to 25 a vast national week of school health, placed under the sign of prevention and awareness. This is indicated by the Ministry of Health.
The aim of this major event aims to instill in children and adolescents healthy and durable behaviors. Awareness campaigns, educational workshops and practical activities will be deployed in schools, in order to anchor reflexes favorable to health from an early age and prepare a better armed generation in the face of health risks.
In a circular addressed to the departments of health and the population across the country, the ministry called for total mobilization. It is a question of strengthening coordination with the directorates of education at the local level, mobilizing and supporting school health teams and ensuring the rigorous application of the awareness program developed jointly with the Ministry of National Education.
In addition to the official program, the authorities encourage to multiply initiatives like medical conferences, specialized interventions, practical workshops or even educational activities. So many contributions that will enrich and amplify the scope of this national week.
The ministry finally recalls that this event constitutes an important step to lastingly include prevention in the school environment and to strengthen the place of health education in the training of the student. An ambition that goes beyond the school year alone, since it is a question of erecting school health as a real pillar of the national education system.
As a reminder, the Minister of National Education, Mohamed Seghir Saâdaoui, announced, a few days ago that the first week of lessons will be entirely devoted to health, under the slogan “School health for a healthy and safe future”.
Saâdaoui said: “This program aims to make our children understand that academic success begins with health. A healthy mind can only flourish in a healthy body. The Minister also wanted to specify that these activities would not disturb the course of the courses. Explaining: “The lessons provided for in the national program will be provided. Health awareness is conceived as a complement, a parallel training which enriches the education of students without encroaching on classical learning. Adding that this initiative concerns the entire national territory and has been designed to adapt to the three levels of national education, so that the message is understood and assimilated by all the students according to the skills of each.