Dentistry course holds VI Symposium on Health care for the LGBTQIAPN+ population

The attention that Bahiana has in the training of professionals who take on a role committed to the well-being of people is reflected both in the classroom and in extension activities, as is the case of the annual event "Symposium on Health Care with the LGBTQIAPN+ population: its training empowers you to care for people in their particularities?", held remotely, via the Zoom platform, last Thursday, June 13th. The event is coordinated by professors Marlene Barreto and Ricardo Araújo da Silva, within the curricular component Public Health III, of the Dentistry course. The event was attended by students and teachers Luiza Ribeiro, People Development coordinator at Bahiana, and Lígia Vilas Boas, supervisor of the Institutional Center for Teacher Development (NIDD).

The program for this 6th edition opened with the testimony of Thamirys Nunes, mother of a trans child who began her speech with the question: "If I arrived at your office, in your laboratory or at the network where you work and said: 'for Love of God, help me! I have a four-year-old child who is a boy and insists on telling me she is a girl! Who here would be technically prepared to welcome me?" From there, the guest gave her report on situations experienced with her daughter in the health system. Thamirys' speech served as a guiding thread for the presentation of the doctor and coordinator of the Outpatient Clinic for Care for Trans People at Bahiana, Dr. Márcia Sampaio, who spoke about “Health Care for Trans People”. "Health Policy for the LGBTQIAPN+ Population" was the topic of Prof. Carle Porcino and, finally, the defender of LGBTQIA+ rights, social educator and former guardianship counselor Reinaldo Barbosa addressed the topic "Analysis of multidisciplinary care for LGBTQIAPN+ people in specialized centers", research he has been carrying out as part of his master's degree.

According to Professor Marlene, annually, the Collective Health III curricular component holds a meeting on bioethics and the use of psychoactive substances and another on health care for the LGBTQIAPN+ population. "We know that, in the Dentistry course, there is a need to have all the technical work, but we understand that, in addition to this technical work, we need to contribute topics related to what is happening in the world and with people, making students of our institution are able to serve people in their specific needs", declared the professor.