2024-04-18 19:48:51
National health program goes to school, aims to provide free, high-quality health services to all students in the country. The aim of this program is to safeguard and promote good habits among students, based on sizes, measurements and weight, as well as providing dental treatment, pediatric care, vaccination, deworming, mental health, among others.
THE BEGINNING
National health program goes to school dates back more than 15 years (2009), thanks to the universalization and democratization of the health policy of the government of former President Hugo Chávez and currently continued by the President of the Republic Nicolás Maduro Moros, through Ministry of Popular Power for Health (MPPS) together with Ministry of Popular Power for Education (MPPE). Initially, this program began to provide specialized care in visual, oral, immunization, nutritional and environmental areas to all children and youth in primary, basic and diversified education.
But it is not until 2022 that the Minister of Health Magaly Gutiérrez decides to breathe new life into the program and expand care and incorporate other medical specialties such as cardiovascular, endocrine metabolic, renal, all chronic diseases programs, as well as deworming, mental health, among other. Likewise, there is guaranteed training for fathers, mothers, representatives and teachers in areas such as preventive measures once morest dengue and sexual reproductive health.
The work to Health goes to school It begins when the National Health Coordinator plans to take the program to educational institutions, and where it then connects with management to organize medical treatment for the students. When specialized medical care is coordinated, organized and performed in educational centers, students, according to their diagnoses and screenings, are referred to the public health centers closest to their location.
STAGES
National health program goes to school It consists of three stages.
– The first stage, consists of environmental cleaning with weeding and removal of education centers and their surroundings. With this, we avoid the risk of the appearance of animals (reptiles) that put the lives of students and the rest of the community at risk, as well as the application of a chemical substance, a larvicide, in the water tanks, with the aim of preventing the spread of breeding sites for mosquitoes that transmit Denque , Zika or Chikungunya.
– The second stage, administrative staff, teachers, parents and representatives, as well as society at large, are informed regarding the health issues that will be discussed in the education center and the city. This stage is accompanied by educational and preventive talks with the aim of making the population aware of the importance of taking care of our health (body and mind). Examples of these are oral hygiene, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), healthy diet, cancer prevention, among others.
– The third stage, consists of the installation of comprehensive and specialized medical care circuits in educational centers. At this stage, each of our students is cared for by the specialized medical and nursing staff of the National Public Health System (SPNS) and students in the field of health from the various universities in the country.
SPECIALTIES OFFERED BY HEALTH GOING TO SCHOOL
This program provides care in various specialties such as: Ophthalmology, dentistry, pediatrics, cardiovascular, immunization (vaccination), deworming, mental health, cardiovascular, endocrine-metabolic, renal, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, environmental health management of family violence, Chronic non- infectious diseases, among others.
Likewise, this program guarantees the delivery of free prescribed treatment by medical personnel, an action that guarantees the right of all our children and young people to free, high-quality health care as established by our Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (CRBV) in its article 83, and the Plan of the Homeland (2019 – 2025) in its second, third and fifth objectives.
“CRBV Article 8: Health is a fundamental social right, an obligation for the state, which will guarantee it as part of the right to life. The state will promote and develop policies that aim to raise the quality of life, collective well-being and access to services.”
“Home country schedule: Goal 2) Continue to build Bolivarian socialism in the 21st century, in Venezuela, as an alternative to the “destructive and brutal system of capitalism” thereby ensuring “the greatest possible happiness, the greatest possible social security and the greatest possible political stability”. for our city”. Goal 3) Make Venezuela a powerful country socially, economically and politically, within the great emerging power of Latin America and the Caribbean, guaranteeing the formation of a zone of peace in Our America. Goal 5) “Contribute to the preservation of life on the planet and the salvation of the human species.”
Period 2022 – 2023
For this period, Health goes to school It benefited 2,505,386 school children, reaching 72% coverage of the country’s total enrolment.
Fleased school children: 3,807,915, covering more than 100%; Oral health and hygiene: 40,857 school pupils served; Visual Health: 275,201 school students served; Vaccination: 257,084 school children vaccinated: Sexual and reproductive health: 57,377 school children educated. It was also possible to approach 78% of the education centers with reduction, weeding and conversations regarding prevention and environmental health.
Target for the period 2023 – 2024
For the National Director of MPPS Health Programs, Dr. Luz Rodríguez, the goals for this year are:
– Implement strategies for education, promotion, prevention, diagnosis and timely treatment in the school population throughout the national territory, which are necessary to identify and intervene in health risk factors to prevent the spread of diseases or their appearance, whether they are communicable or non- transferable,
– Incorporate family health and kidney health, which were not present in the last period.
– Education of hospitalized patients of school age, i.e. health and school go to the hospital, sick patients who have a long stay due to chronic pathologies or oncological pathologies, the teaching group goes to the hospital and generates the so-called hospital classroom.
– Maintain the inter-institutional link between MPPS and MPPE, and expand the Ministry of Popular Power for Food (MINPPAL) through the National Institute of Nutrition (INN), as it is intended this school year to improve “Healthy Snacks”. ”, as well as a “violence-free break”.
– Training of teachers in mental health to address the aspects that create stigma in school children.
– Arrangements must be made for a common strategy to promote responsible sexuality both from an educational and health point of view.
– School campaign specifically aimed at the school population in upper secondary and diversified education, to avoid tobacco consumption in all presentations, with an emphasis on the use of Vapers.
– Communication plan which aims to attract mothers, fathers, representatives and the school community with a focus on prevention, everything that is educated to school pupils with parental responsibility to protect those represented.
– Finally, the certification of healthy schools and the socialization of the necessary parameters are planned, as a form of measurement to know how and in what way health has an impact.
Importance
MPPS is a governing body for prevention, diseases, bad habits and bad lifestyles, and with the Health goes to school plan, we run promotion, we carry out prevention, we carry out diagnosis, treatment and we also carry out rehabilitation in the cases that are necessary.
Having a health plan that goes directly to the school is closing a gap, and this is a way to reach school spaces, which are spaces of peace, they are spaces where many institutions converge and also meet directly with the family.
For Dr. Rodríguez, “through health, a recreational space is created, free of violence, peace and entertainment to socialize health to school children, and that it is not seen as a tool for fear and panic, it is a way to change stigmas”.
By 2030, Health Goes to School projects to have a 100% healthy school population, 100% healthy schools.
MPPS Communication Management / Rubén Scorche
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