Project Name: Students Health Information Tracking System
Organisation: (SWHITS) for Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society
Project Location & Coverage Area: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Project URL: www.swhits.cgg.gov.in
Area of intervention: Education

Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (APSWREIS) has 353 residential, educational institutions with total student strength of 1,540,00, funded by the State Government and administered by an IAS officer. The society is required to monitor the health information of the students on a daily basis, especially the outgoing students like S.S.C.
students, final inter and final year degree students.
Students Health Information Tracking System (SWHITS) is a mobile driven application developed by Hyderabad-based Centre for Good Governance to monitor the health information of the students on a daily basis. Under the system, the Principals/Medical Officers of the residential schools which are often located in remote areas send daily status of the general health of children (including cases requiring minimum treatment) as an SMS to the centralized office. A simple software (J2ME application) using templates to furnish these basic details has been installed in the mobile phones of the school authorities to simplify the process of sending the SMS.
Based on this information, MIS reports are developed in various formats including tabular, graphical charts and Google maps. The administrator is alerted with a blinking signal on the Google map when an institution reports more than 10 pupils suffering from a single category of disease. Another facility integrated in the application shows the direction on the Google map from an institution to the nearest Primary Health Centre (PHC).

Reach & Road Ahead

This student health information tracking system helps in monitoring mechanism and reviewing of the hygiene. The same application can be extended to all such institutions, where the health monitoring in a residential system is very much needed. The innovation here is the use of widely accessed form of simple technology, in bridging the gap of information between the administration and the grass root level institutions.
By using this application, the concerned officers can monitor the health details and attendance of students on a regular basis. In addition, they can send email and SMS alerts to particular institutions to take appropriate measures. Till July 2014, the project has reported information about 353 institutions and about 1.5 lakh students. It has proved to be an innovative scheme in monitoring the health status of poor children from disadvantaged sections of the society enrolled in these residential schools.