Table 3 Function: child health care department: pediatric

- Child Nutrition growth & development

- Trace child's growth and monitor feeding habits.

- Breast feeding

- Facilitate an exclusive breast feeding practice during the 1^st 4–6 months; explain its benefits and when to start giving weaning food.

- ARI control and the rational use of antibiotics

- Identify dangerous criteria and the situations of using specific antibodies.

- Diarrhoeal Disease control and the use of Oral rehydration

- Diagnose diarrhoeal diseases and assess dehydration. Decide which treatment plan is indicated and explain the value, and method of preparing ORS and its alternatives.

- Child protection from dangerous communicable diseases immunization

- Identify type and time of giving vaccines, its contraindications and side effects, its storage, site of giving vaccine and perform properly the national schedule of vaccination to a maximum coverage-rate.

- Management of other common health problems and its related health customs and traditions

- Take a brief history and conduct essential clinical examinations, do specific investigations, diagnose and manage the main health problem and communicate well to manipulate the related health customs or traditions.

- Risky child-diagnosis & follow up

- Pick dangerous specific criteria, diagnose risky child, prescribe essential method of management, make a follow up schedule, and monitor indicators of improvement

- Health-educational advice propagation

- Detect the actual health educational problem through proper communication, determine the essential educational needs, suggest a proper way and timing for introducing the advice.

- Screening for rheumatic heart diseases.

- Auscultate pupil's heart carefully, detect any added sounds or murmur, examine the tonsils and relate the findings to past history of recurrent attacks of tonsillitis.

- Essential measures to obtain a healthy eye and vision.

- Examine the eyelids and eyeball carefully, identify any disturbed vision, detect critical or risky criteria, diagnose the problem and deal with it accordingly.

- Referral services.

- Determine indications for referral, including method and direction and follow up referred cases.

- Prevention and control of any outbreak of epidemic among pupils.

- Notify about the case, isolate it by a suitable method, give essential treatment and sick leave needed, examine contacts, put under observation risky ones and provide essential health protective measures.