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The Health Center of Casteljaloux will be alongside the Bergo’Bus, Tuesday April 4 from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the parking lot of the E. Leclerc Center in Casteljaloux, to talk about health over a coffee.
The Bergo’ Bus it’s what ? It is a traveling bus with health professionals from the Bergonié Institute in Bordeaux on board.
The interest is to meet the population, in close collaboration with the actors of the territory, to promote access to the healthcare system and to health information.
Cancer screening
The Bergo’ Bus thus offers awareness-raising actions around the cancer screeningsvaccination, balanced diet, physical activity, addictions, access to the health system, according to the needs of the public.
Health professionals from the Bergonié Institute will lead these days and will address the following topics: food and nutrition, cancer screening and vaccination against HPV, physical activity: everywhere and for everyone, addiction and access to the health system.
Prevention and information
The Bergo’Bus will also offer social assessments thanks to the presence of a social worker and will direct people to the health resources closest to our territory.
The Bergonie institute in brief
The Bergonié Institute is the first provincial Center to have been created, in 1923, on the initiative of Professor Jean-Alban Bergonié. With more than 57,000 consultations, 10,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 day hospital stays per year, the Bergonié Institute carries out missions of prevention, care, research and education at the service of nearly six million inhabitants. of New Aquitaine. Comprehensive patient care and prevention are major missions for this structure.
More than 40% of cancers are linked to our lifestyles and our environment. Information is one of the first levers for taking care of one’s health. However, part of the population encounters difficulties in accessing it.
The Prevention-Public Health department of the Bergonié Institute coordinates this activity with professionals from the establishment and also proposes the development of targeted actions on certain themes with regard to the needs of the territories.
To note : The Bergo’Bus will be in Tonneins, Wednesday April 5, in the morning, at the Farmers’ Market. Then in the afternoon, in Clairac, at the Maison de Santé.
Hasna Abourahim
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