Kids cheating on eye tests, getting teeth treated in buses: S'pore's school health staff have seen it all

SHS conducted vision screening in the 1960s and the SDS operated mobile dental clinics from the 1950s. PHOTOS: HEALTH PROMOTION BOARD
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SINGAPORE - In primary school, Ms Sumasni Sunar received milk powder, oranges and cod liver oil under the school feeding programme to help combat malnutrition.

At 19, she began training as a nurse and has now spent more than 30 years helping schoolchildren under the Health Promotion Board (HPB) School Health Service (SHS).

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