Giving children a chance to thrive
Mobile Schools Health is a social business that works with public and private partners to deliver preventative healthcare services to under-privileged primary school learners across South Africa.
A model for maximum impact
Mobile Schools Health is the only high-impact, mobile intervention that enables under-served children to access preventative healthcare so that they can have the opportunity to succeed in life.
Using large-scale, multi-disciplinary mobile clinics, we deliver optometry, primary healthcare and oral healthcare services directly to schools – ensuring convenience for children as well as their families and schools.
Optometry
- Visual screening.
- Eye health examination.
- Provision of medication for children with minor ailments, or refer to the clinic for more serious issues.
- Prescribe and supply spectacles to those with vision impairment.
Primary Healthcare
- Health education and counseling.
- Nutritional assessments.
- Height, weight, BMI, and growth monitoring.
- Motor skills and development milestones.
- Hearing assessment.
- Provision of immunisations.
- Check and treat minor ailments and refer to the local clinic or hospital for more serious health issues.
Oral Healthcare
- Oral health education and promotion.
- Scaling and polishing (cleaning).
- Fluoride treatments.
- Application of fissure sealants.
- Extractions.
- Fill dental caries.
How do we do it?
Mobile Schools Health is a comprehensive solution that considers every detail needed to create maximum impact in the communities we serve. We do the hard work so our partners don't have to.
With depots across SA, MSH works with our supportive network to design, build and maintain our large-scale mobile clinics in-house.
Each of our projects have a dedicated project management team. We personally recruit, train and manage on-board medical staff.
In-house technology tools promote transparency for our partners and streamline data capturing and reporting.
To date, Mobile Schools Health has reached over 125,000 primary school learners throughout the country with preventative healthcare services.
Our partners
