At Sheikh Zayed International Academy-Islamabad, the health of each of our students is of prime importance as the physical, social and emotional well-being of a child is the foundation upon which she/ he may progress academically and achieve scholastic success. For this, the Academy provides the services of the SZIA Health Office. As welll, SZIA has on its staff a full-time, Clinical Psychologist who administers aptitude as well as I.Q. testing to the students, offers counselling sessions for the students in order to provide complete assessments and management of any behavioural problems associated with the students and acts as a liason between the school administration and the parents regarding any psycho-social issues related to their children.

The SZIA Health Office:
The Health Office is staffed by a fully qualified medical lady Doctor and a female nurse who are trained to attend to the physical needs of children. The Health Office is open to all students during the regular School day timings of 8:00 am. to 3:00 pm. as well as on the days when the Academy is holding any of its functions or ceremonies.

The many specific services provided by the SZIA Health Office include the following:

1. Seeing students and staff for health issues/emergencies.
2. The school doctor and nurse keep the School Health Office functional, equipped and neat and clean.
3. They are responsible for keeping the health record of each student on a daily, weekly and monthly basis and keeping the periodic record of visits in the office.
4. Annual checkups are done for each student and reports are sent to the parents and parent doctor meetings are arranged. These annual checkups aim at maintaining a health profile of all students, evaluate their health status and assist parents in planning proper health care for their children. This computerized health record (which includes medical history) is made available to parents on request when the student is leaving the Academy and includes a report on:
   • General Physical Health of the student
   • Vision and Hearing
   • Physical development
   • Possible areas for further examination
5. Seminars on health-related topics are arranged for the students and staff by the doctor as well as by collaborating with professionals from other institutes via multimedia. First-aid training is given to the teaching staff along with practical demonstrations and multimedia presentations.
6. On a monthly basis students of each grade level visit the Health Office on the ‘Student’s Leadership Day’ and play the role of a doctor and learn about the daily routine of a school clinic and, during their time there ,they are assigned some health-related tasks.
7. The Health Office has a theme related to health every month and its boards are decorated accordingly. The notice board at the entrance has three sections: the information corner, the news corner and the daily health-related updates which are maintained on a daily/ monthly basis, as required.
8. Full health coverage is provided during any function or school trip.
9. Lectures are given to students on any health-related topic from their textbooks to broaden their horizon of the information.
10. The doctor supervises the hygiene of the cafeteria and its employees and takes care that food safety rules are followed. As well annual health assessments of the Cafeteria Staff is carried out.