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Bahiana participates in the XV Health Fair in the Parish of Brotas
Event provided several free services to the local community.
30/05/2019
Solidarity, disease prevention and awareness. This was the XV Health Fair of the Parish of Nossa Senhora de Brotas, which took place on the morning of last Saturday, May 25, at the community center of the Parish of Nossa Senhora de Brotas. The event featured lectures on health promotion and free medical care for the population.
the residents of Brotas had access to free haircut services, healthy eating instruction, blood pressure measurement, physiotherapy with guidance for patients with chronic pain, health surveillance, prevention of diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya and general clinic consultations, gynecology and ophthalmology.
The event's coordinator, Dr. Eliana de Paula, emphasizes the importance of the health fair: “It is a special space, a field of practice for our students, a favorable environment to exercise social responsibility, teamwork and communication . Students from the Medicine, Biomedicine and Physiotherapy courses are collaborating, and, for the first time this year, residents of Family and Community Medicine participated.”
This partnership between the Bahiana and the Parish of Brotas it is lasting. Father Ademilton de Santa Bárbara describes how this occasion is significant for the exercise of solidarity: “This health fair has been taking place here in the parish for a long time before I arrived here, and when I started to participate, I realized how much this partnership with the Bahiana it's something spectacular. These free services and health care are very important, mainly because we live in a reality in which the institutions responsible for the health care of the population are often absent from their role. The entire community participates in this event and it is gratifying to witness this moment”.
During the fair, it was possible to notice the intense performance of students and teachers from the Bahiana. Sara Rocha, Professor of Public Health I, tells how she structured the participation of students in the event: “I brought students from my discipline with the aim of promoting knowledge about various diseases that affect the local community. We did a survey to find out which are the main illnesses suffered by the population here in Brotas and, based on that, we set up banners and strategies to inform these people about the prevention of these diseases”.
Rafael Lélis, a medical student, expresses his feeling of gratitude when working at the fair: “It is very gratifying to participate in this health fair. We know that many people do not have the financial conditions to have quality health care, and the public health system has flaws in terms of serving this population. So when the Bahiana promotes such an event, we need to participate and make ourselves available to provide citizen care”.
Many institutions were partners of the Bahiana in the execution of the XV Health Fair of the Parish of Nossa Senhora de Brotas. Gesilda Amorim, health surveillance inspector, represented Salvador City Hall and reported about her presence at the event: “We came here today with the role of making citizens aware of the importance of food and medication surveillance. Many people consume these products, but are unaware of the care that the establishment needs to take with its customers. It is essential that the population is informed of everything that impacts their health”.
The presence of the local community was great. Many people were attended to during the morning and left the place satisfied. The resident Letícia Raul took her daughter Esther for a consultation and shared her experience: “I always participate in this fair and I really like it. Today I brought my daughter to be seen by pediatrics and I am very happy to have had the opportunity to participate in an event like this, with free and quality care”.
