Health and Education Ministers agree that schools should give up a requirement for a doctor’s sign in cases of delays / day

As LETA informed the Ministry of Health (MoE), Abu Meri met Melbourne on Friday to discuss the most important interdisciplinary issues in pupils’ health and safety.

Among them, one of the main topics was about signs of delay in the delay. Officials agreed that there should be no additional load on GPs and there is no need to create additional bureaucracy on the delays in the signs justifying, and each school itself could decide on this issue.

On the other hand, as regards the signs of the doctor in situations where children return to school after the illness, Abu Meri emphasized the need to develop a common approach. Similarly, during the meeting, Abu Meri emphasized that the signs of the doctor should only be issued in cases where special recommendations are provided, such as exemption from sports activities or other changes to the regime.

Such an approach would help reduce doctors’ workload and make administrative processes more efficient, while providing clarity on the need for cognitive educational institutions themselves. This issue is important for the health sector because it creates a disproportionate demand for a doctor’s signs for the child’s absence, the ministry said.

Similarly, the Minister of Health calls on educational institutions that have not yet done so, clarifying internal order rules, providing that the doctor’s sign would not be necessary for simple absence of absence, as it creates an unnecessary burden on doctors, health sectors and parents of children.

During the meeting, health education in schools was also discussed. Studies on Latvian student health habits indicate negative trends that require more attention from the education and health sector. During the meeting, Melbourne stated that topics such as mental health, trauma, healthy diet and physical activity of pupils’ knowledge after learning programs are relatively high.

As a result, specialists in education and health could be assessed in depth both the inclusion of additional topics in the curriculum, as well as the availability of methodological materials for educators, as well as their use in the learning process.

The ministers agreed that health issues should be addressed in order to build an educated society that is able to maintain good health and make conscious decisions on their lifestyle.

The meeting also discussed issues related to the attraction of teachers’ support staff to educational institutions to organize a better quality learning process, as well as higher education and science issues.