Prevention is better than Cure

WALT: respond to the presentation given by the Public Health Dept.

This morning Glen Innes School had to meet in the hall for a special assembly. Most students were excited to see the the Vodafone Warriors.

Dr Alison was talking about how to take care of a sore throat. She did a demo with the puppet Freddy the Frog on how to swab your sore throat. Nurse Kirsty also did a demo on one of the Vodafone Warriors player. Sione a Warrior player, was too shy to get his throat  checked so Ben Henry and Sam Rapira told the Glen Innes children to say” ah” on the count of three.

When Dr Alison finished she told the ex Warrior Awen Guttenbeil to come up and tell his experiences with rheumatic fever.When he was little Awen Guttenbeil did not tell anyone that he had a sore throat, not even his parents. He told the Glen Innes children how he was trying to be the tough guy and not tell anybody that he had a sore throat. Awen told us children how his joints were sore and that he could not walk. Eventually he was diagnosed with rheumatic fever.

The message is that if you have a sore throat tell your parents or caregivers.