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INTRODUCTION

Every school year, there are numerous of cases in which the students are involved in an

accident or a medical emergency. According to the Article 218, Family Code of the Philippines

(FCP), the school, its administrators and teachers, or the individual, entity or institution engaged

in child care have special potential authority and responsibility over the minor while under their

supervision, instruction or custody. This only means that the school is also liable for every

child’s safety.

Moreover, it is the school clinic that holds a great portion of responsibility in providing a primary

treatment with high quality to each of the students. It is also written in the “School Sanitation and

Health Services” of the code on sanitation of the Philippines (P.D. 856), under 11.3, the School

Health Facilities, is about how a school clinic should be structured, as well as the appropriate

practices that are needed, such as the requirement of having the presence of health personnel

in the school clinic while the class is going on. Therefore, a proper supervision is strongly

needed and required, together with the adequate supplication of supplies.

However, with the huge number of students every school year, it’s getting difficult for the

schools that only have enough funds to provide these requirements. This issue can greatly

affect the students, especially those who needed immediate assistance but were not treated,

because either there are no available medicines or there’s no one to perform the necessary

treatment.
The purpose of this study is to know the impact of supply service shortage in school clinic on the

well – being of grade ten students in Muzon Harmony Hills High School, school year 2018 –

2019. If the school clinics can still meet the needs of every students despite of the shortage, and

if there is any bad effects not only on the well - being but also to the students’ satisfaction.

Statement Of the Problem

How does the lack of school clinic supply and service affect the satisfaction of the needs of

selected grade ten students in Muzon Harmony Hills High School, school year 2018 – 2019.

A. Are the alternative medicines always available in case there’s a lack of medicine supply?

B. Are the selected grade ten students in Muzon Harmony Hills High School, school year

2018 – 2019 comfortable whenever they are staying at the school clinic?

C. What are the suggestions/recommendations of the selected grade ten students in Muzon

Harmony Hills High School, school year 2018 – 2019 to the school clinic in order to

improve the services and the supplication of adequate supplies?

Significance of the Study

Scope and Delimition of the Study

As a whole, the study will focus on the impact of supply and service shortage in school clinic on

well being of selected grade ten students in Muzon Harmony Hills High School S.Y. 2018-2019.

About of having lack of medicines and equipments of school clinic management. This study is

Largely determined on the honesty, integrity and fairness of the selected grade ten students in

Muzon Harmony Hills High School.

In this surveys, questionares and investigations we can see the responses of the selected

grade ten students in Muzon harmony Hills High School about the school clinic Management in

the school. However, the advocate limits the wishes and wants of the respondents. The

opinions of selected grade ten students are not included. Even though the school clinic are

shortage in supply and service, the school clinic has alternative medicines, supply and

equipment to satisfy the needs of the all students in Muzon Harmony Hills High School.