Beijing primary, middle school students to get free health checkup
5/9/2008 17:34
Beijing Municipal Commission of Education announced yesterday that
students at the city's primary and middle schools and vocational schools will
enjoy free physical checkup once a year.
Education departments at district
and county level will ask health organizations and hospitals to establish health
records for each student, while informing their schools and parents about the
results of physical checkups, Beijing Morning News reports today.
Those
departments will cover the fees with their public education funding. The
physical examination will include measurement of height and weight, urine and
blood tests, dental and other checkups. First year middle school students will
also receive blood-pressure and color blindness tests. Boarding school students
will take hepatitis tests, the newspaper said.
The data of their health
results will be kept by education departments.
Xinhua
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