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The achievement on the percentage of primary schoolchildren maintaining orally-fit status showed an
increasing trend from 2010 to 2013. However, there was a drop in achievement in 2014 and this is
attributed to the introduction of the Gingival Index Status (GIS) for schoolchildren. Within four years
after the use of GIS in oral health examination of schoolchildren, the achievement in 2016 was 63.9
per cent. However, it dropped to 62.9 per cent in 2017 (Figure 15).
Figure 15
Achievement of Primary Schoolchildren Maintaining Orally-Fit Status
2010 to 2017
68 67.0
66 64.7 65.3 63.7 63.9
64
62.8 62.9
62 60.2
60
58
56
54
52
50
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Source: Oral Health Programme MoH, 2017.
Similarly, the pattern of achievement for the percentage of secondary schoolchildren maintaining orally-
fit status showed an increasing trend from 2010 to 2013. A decline in achievement which took place
when the GIS was introduced in 2014. Following this, the achievement showed an upward trend for
year 2015 and 2016 but declined again in 2017 (68.3 per cent) (Figure 16).
Figure 16
Achievement of Secondary Schoolchildren Maintaining Orally-Fit Status
2010 to 2017
Source: Oral Health Programme MoH, 2017.
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