STATUS OF SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ILORIN SOUTHLOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to determine the status of secondary schools health services in the study area based
on; pre-entry medical examination, emergency care services, monitoring communicable diseases and control
programme in secondary schools in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State are available or not.
Descriptive research of the cross-sectionally type was used for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used
to select all the twenty-two (22) secondary schools in the study area. A researcher-developed observational
checklist validated by three experts from the Department of Health Promotion and Environmental Health
Education, University of Ilorin was used for data collection by the researchers. Frequency counts and
percentages were used to analyse the result of the data collected. The findings of the study revealed that preentry medical examination, monitoring communicable diseases and control programme and emergency care
services were high and implemented for secondary school students in the study area. The researchers
recommend among others that the State Ministry of Education should formulate a law which will make it
compulsory for all school principals to include pre-entry medical examination as part of the requirement for
admitting students into the secondary schools in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State.