WBBSE Madhyamik Vocational Health Care case studies
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The Health Care vocational subject is offered within Madhyamik Pariksha (Secondary Examination), the Class 10 board examination conducted by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE). WBBSE describes its own role as issuing quality education and providing a hassle-free Board examination for what its Secretary's Desk calls "the 1st ever career leap by students." The Health Care paper is the vocational component of that first public credential: it sits alongside the general Madhyamik subjects and gives a school candidate an early, structured introduction to health-sector work rather than a purely academic route. The WBBSE Madhyamik Vocational Health Care case studies are 5 cases and about 4,053 words.
1A Hot Dal Scald in a Rainy Village: First Aid and Referral Judgement
in a mud-walled house in a Purulia village, a 6-year-old girl pulls an aluminium pot of hot, thin dal off a kerosene stove. The dal runs down the front of her right thigh and lower abdomen.
793 words, about 4 min2Day-Five Fever at a Sub-Centre: Spotting the Critical Phase
A 45-year-old farm labourer comes to a sub-centre at 4 p.m. on the fifth day of fever.
798 words, about 4 min3Needlestick at 11.15 a.m.: Waste Rules, PEP and the "Healthy-Looking Patient"
At a 12-bed private nursing home in a district town, a Class X vocational trainee is helping with a dressing on a diabetic foot ulcer at 11 a.m. There is no puncture-proof sharps container in the dressing room.
817 words, about 4 min4Painless Bleeding at 34 Weeks: The Examination That Must Not Be Done
A 29-year-old woman in her third pregnancy, about 34 weeks by her antenatal card, is brought to a rural sub-centre at 9.30 p.m. Her saree and the cloth she was carried on are soaked with bright red blood.
795 words, about 4 min5A 200 ml Glass of ORS: Dehydration Plan and a Wrong Dilution
A 20-month-old boy weighing 8.5 kg is brought to an Anganwadi centre with watery diarrhoea for three days, about 8–10 stools a day, and two episodes of vomiting. He is restless and thirsty, drinks eagerly from a glass, has sunken eyes and no tears when crying; his mouth is dry, and the skin pinch on the abdomen goes back slowly.
850 words, about 4 min