Asunción, IP Agency.- In World Health Week, Dr. Vivi Santander, a specialist in family medicine, calls on families to place more emphasis on care for mental problems, which can start with simple stress and worsen over time. time.
90% of suicides occur due to undiagnosed or poorly treated mental illness, due to the lack of adequate education, or what usually happens, the taboo, the shame of talking regarding having a problem or some kind of disorder .
Paraguayans and Paraguayans are ashamed to say that we are sick and even more so, that this disorder is mental, we are ashamed that they treat us crazy, “he said in an interview with the Tribuna program on Paraguay TV.
“When these problems, which can even start with stress and are not adequately treated over time, there is a high tendency to self-elimination in the next 5 years and this is what we have to stop,” he adds.
Santander is a Surgeon, specialist in Gynecology-Obstetrics and Perinatology. She is a graduate and current professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Asunción. She was director of the San Lorenzo General Hospital from 2008 to 2011, achieving the first Intensive Care Unit for Adults and also the first Neonatal Intensive Care, the same step from being a Maternal and Child Hospital to a General Hospital.
Sexual and reproductive health, on the list of taboos
Talking regarding sexual and reproductive education is a taboo, a secret, which is still spoken in a low voice or even is like a mystery. However, children and adolescents end up looking for information on the internet or with people who often end up abusing that innocence, says the expert.
For the expert, a lot of education, awareness and the use of sports activities are needed. “We close this virtuous circle with sport, which protects us, gives us a healthy habit and allows us to think regarding ourselves. Sport generates self-esteem and a better life condition, but also sports practice or sports spaces require investment from the State, ”she added.
