Fiocruz will have a Saturday with free cultural activities and vaccinations for children up to 5 years old | Rio de Janeiro

Fiocruz will have a Saturday with free cultural activities and vaccinations for children up to 5 years old | Rio de Janeiro
Fiocruz will have a Saturday with free cultural activities and vaccinations for children up to 5 years old | Rio de Janeiro
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The headquarters of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is in ManguinhosFernando Frazão/Agência Brasil

Published 11/17/2023 15:35

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Rio – The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is promoting, this Saturday (18), from 8am to 5pm, an event with free vaccinations for children up to 5 years of age and cultural activities. Held since 1994, Fiocruz Pra Você will offer vaccines against polio (VIP and VOP), MMR and Covid-19; in addition to bivalent Covid-19 for adolescents and adults.

According to Fiocruz, the event promotes integration and exchange of experiences between workers and the region’s population. In Rio de Janeiro, Manguinhos will concentrate most of the activities. The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, and the Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade, will be present.

The program in Manguinhos includes cultural and leisure activities, scientific dissemination and health promotion for the population. Among the planned attractions are painting and drawing workshops for children and young people, as well as candy stalls, storytelling, balloon distribution, kite workshop with distribution, toys (bouncy castle and ball pit). In addition, registration for dog adoption is also planned.

At the Medicines Technological Complex (CTM), in Jacarepaguá, blood pressure, capillary blood glucose, body bioimpedance and guidance will be carried out for the job market and on work safety and firefighter practice.

In partnership with the city of Rio, the Clínica da Família Lourival Francisco de Oliveira, in Cidade de Deus, will administer vaccines and fluoride, and the Social Assistance Reference Center (Cras) will register Bolsa Família beneficiaries, as well as provide guidance and exemption for Civil documentation.

The actions are organized by the Centro de Saúde Escola Germano Sinval Faria (Ensp/Fiocruz), by the Institute of Communication and Scientific and Technological Information in Health (Icict/Fiocruz), also by the Institute of Technology in Pharmaceuticals (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) and by the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz).

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