2023-12-12 13:05:29
By Agustín Casa
The last friday 34 doctors graduated from the UNMDP. This is the first group of the second group of the race. In this way, this year they received the first 123 professionals from the UNMDP Higher School of Medicine.
The group that graduated last week participated this year in the Compulsory Final Practice Health Camp (PFO) of Medicine in the north of the country, in places such as Amaicha (Tucumán), El Impenetrable Chaqueño, El Espinillo (Chaco), and Cachi and Seclantás (Salta).
Agustina Nielsen is a native of Necochea and one of the 34 graduates on Friday. This year He stayed for twenty days in Cachi (Salta). There he completed his internship at the San José de Cachi Hospital and in surrounding health posts, where health professionals provide care to the communities that live nearby.
“The practices carried out in the north of Argentina consist of providing health care in remote areas and, therefore, with certain geographical obstacles to more complex health services. The place where we are going to carry out the internship is the closest healthcare service for an entire population that is referred to a specific place and professionals,” he tells bacap Nielsen.
Regarding the practices carried out in Cachi, the UNMDP graduate describes: “I had the opportunity to become a health agent, chat interactively with members of the community regarding common diseases so that they have more information regarding them, perform physical activity with them to promote good habits, carry out health checks on children and adolescents, provide counseling in sexual and reproductive education, meet spontaneous demands and collaborate in the generation of data on the health status of the population in order to develop practices that follow helping accessibility. “Always accompanied by health professionals with a vocation for their work.”
“The enriching and surprising thing regarding Cachi is seeing how resources are really managed in the best possible way to make health accessible to everyone,” highlights Nielsen.
Regarding the work carried out, he details that “we were able to visit people in their homes with health agents, go to several schools to carry out health checks on children and adolescents, hold weekly talks together with kinesiologists, nutritionists and nurses regarding common diseases in the adult population of the programmatic area, observe how the hospital management constantly seeks to bring the most required specialists in the health area from Salta capital to Cachi to improve accessibility to them (it is a minimum 3-hour trip by vehicle , and it is not a resource that the entire population has).”
“It is encouraging to be able to witness the excellent functioning of what one constantly reads in the texts that talk regarding health as a right and primary care as the gateway for any individual to health services,” he adds and underlines: “The value of these practices is to confirm from one’s own experience that good health management, which allows approaching the community and providing accessible and complete assistance, is possible.”
Furthermore, he highlights that through listening he was able to learn regarding and give value to the customs of local communities. “Simply listening and sharing time mainly with older adults, we were able to learn many traditional ways of each family to cure common illnesses; see the value and respect they maintain for Mother Earth,” she acknowledges.
Leandro Goncalves did an internship at the B. Olmos Hospital in Seclantás (Salta). // Main photo: Agustina Nielsen with professionals from the San José de Cachi Hospital (Salta).
For his part, another of the graduates, Leandro Goncalves (native of Brazil), carried out the internship between June and July of this year at the B. Olmos Hospital in Seclantás (Salta).
“My experience at the health camp was full of learning, knowledge, and new meanings. Being immersed in a new reality and being able to recognize the various vulnerabilities that arise was challenging, but it helps me to be a professional dedicated to the real needs of people.”says Goncalves.
In relation to the practices carried out during his stay in Seclantás, Goncalves comments: “I was able to accompany the health agents to the families’ homes and, in that area, carry out pregnancy checks, healthy children and vaccination checks, develop promotional actions. preventive measures, recognize alarm situations (violence or aggravation of health status), provide medication to patients, control diabetes and other chronic diseases and detect situations of socioeconomic vulnerability.”
“Being able to carry out these actions in the families’ homes and not inside an office is without a doubt the key pillar of the health camp. For me it was the best, being able to chat, learn regarding and observe the different ways of caring for these people”he claims.
The graduate highlights that the health camp contributes to the affirmation of the values that are promoted in the UNMDP Medicine degree. Along these lines, he comments that the degree, “with an innovative curriculum, provides comprehensive, empathetic and patient-centered training.”
“The health camp contributed to the consolidation of these values and the training of the professional that I want to be in the future,” he concludes.
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