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Bahiana and CCVP promote V Mutirão for Health and Social Action
Action developed activities to promote health and disease prevention with an emphasis on early detection of diseases for different population groups in the Pau da Lima neighborhood.
08/11/2016
On the last 15th of October, the students of the Medicine course at Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública participated in the V Mutirão for Health and Social Action at the Vida Plena Community Complex (CCVP) in 2016, in the neighborhood of Pau da Lima.
The mutirão is a traditional mobilization carried out every two months with the objective of developing activities to promote health and prevent diseases with an emphasis on early detection of diseases for the various population groups in the Pau da Lima neighborhood. Other editions have already been held in 2014 and 2015, totaling 12 joint efforts.
The coordinator of the joint effort and professor of Public Health at the Bahiana, Karine de Souza Oliveira, the students of the Nursing course Extension of the Cuidar faz Bem da Program Bahiana together with the teacher Aidê Nunes da Silva and the nurse Geane Peixinho, preceptor of the undergraduate Nursing course and manager of the CCVP.
For the event coordinator, Prof.ª Karine de Souza, the collective effort is a health and well-being activity for the population. "We think about health in its entirety, not only in physical health, but in the lack of this population in various services", says Karine, explaining that the work was conceived by Professor André Luiz Peixinho, coordinator of the internship and founder of CCVP. “We are having success and success, as we involve the entire population of Pau da Lima, teachers from Bahiana, young people and women from the community who are agents of Vida Plena, giving a special character to the activity”.
The actions were developed by CCVP multidisciplinary teams and sought to expand and strengthen the level of information about HTLV in partnership with the HTLVida Association. Throughout the day, conversation circles were established with the participants in an interactive way. On the occasion, kits were distributed with an informative folder on HTLV, male and female condoms and request for HTLV serology.
Also to be part of the programming, the assistance actions developed at the Integrative and Multidisciplinary Center of HTVL of the Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública and the need for the implementation of a care network by the state and municipal management that will add to the "care" assumed by the HTLV Center.
CCVP
The Vida Plena Community Complex (CCVP) acted in the programming strengthening the expanded concept of health: actions for different population groups ranged from guidelines on sickle cell anemia, care and prevention of intestinal parasites, guidelines on STDs including HTLV, dermatological consultation, ophthalmological evaluation, FITDance class with inclusion of adolescents, screening for diabetes, hypertension, in addition to the presence of the public defender.
It is important to emphasize that, in addition to the preventive actions developed during the activity, a space was made available to meet emerging clinical demands. The students of the Nursing Extension Program Cuidar do Bem expressed satisfaction for the immersion in the proposed experiences, and for the receptivity of the Pau da Lima community and the multidisciplinary teams.