KATHMANDU: An organisation called Our Health has created digital health profiles for over 22,000 students from more than 45 schools in the Kathmandu Valley. Similarly, more than 58,000 health records have been securely digitalised.

It is stated the organisation developed a technology-based student health ‘recording’ system after challenges emerged in management due to students’ health records being limited to paper.

The students’ digital health profiles have been prepared in which all health-related activities at the school have been systematically recorded.

Dr Prashant Bhattarai, the founder of Our Health, said that with the government’s ‘one school, one nurse’ policy, midday meals, vaccinations, ‘deworming’, iron/vitamin distribution, and similar programmes increasing, the lack of a systematic health ‘database’ for students means that the government is unable to obtain real-time data.

According to him, the organisation is creating strong student health data that helps students, parents, schools and municipalities make evidence-based decisions.

Bhattarai added that the profile would include government-run programmes such as the distribution of vaccines, iron and vitamins, deworming programmes, private sector health check-ups conducted at schools, first aid provided by school nurses and available health services at the time.

As he said, the main task of the institution is to include a long-term and systematic archive covering every health-related activity in the school.