Improvement of health care services provided in school/ pre-school institutions in Pasvalys and Biržai district municipalities

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Project “Improvement of health care services provided in school/ pre-school institutions in Pasvalys and Biržai district municipalities” contract was signed

Project promoter – Pasvalys district municipal public health bureau

Project partner – Biržai district municipal public health bureau

Amount of grant assistance and co-financing is 245 988,60 Eur

Project goal – improvement and expansion of health care in school / pre-school education institutions in the districts of Pasvalys and Biržai.

During the Project health care offices in school/pre-school education institutions will be renovated and equipped and provided with basic and additional measures. Consequently, health care specialists will have every opportunity to perform and ensure to those of pre-school and school age children required functions: noncontagious diseases, their risk factors and prevention of these diseases; infectious diseases and prevention of their factors; accident prevention; first aid and training of providing first aid to others; promotion of healthy eating and formation of healthy eating skills; help in developing children‘s healthy lifestyles and personal hygiene skills; unhealthy habits prevention and other activity.

New modern attractive visual measures will help to give information for children more attractively, and it will be easier for them to absorb such information. Health education and healthy lifestyle training, using measures acquired during the Project, will have huge implications for the future of children because it will elevate the physical, mental, spiritual and social health of children. It will make it easier to transfer the most important health knowledge for the children and form their healthy lifestyle skills.

It is expected that the project will help to improve health indicators of pre-school and school-age children, decrease the number of diseases cases, the children will get the knowledge and skills of healthy lifestyle and healthy eating. Active work with children, providing them interesting health care, preventive and other information will reduce the chances of developing those diseases (such as., infectious), which, with some knowledge, you can easily prevent and reduce the incidence of these diseases.