Public school teachers receive guidance on the approach to arboviruses

In partnership with the Department of Education (SEEDF), the Department of Health (SES-DF), promoted a workshop with teachers from the Education Center (CED) 8 of Gama to guide how to address arboviruses in the program content. The aim is to integrate the two departments in order to raise awareness among young people about the care necessary to prevent the spread of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. Aedes aegypti.

Furthermore, by integrating the two portfolios, the community is strengthened by paying greater attention to public health, as defended by the deputy director of CED 8, Guilherme Pereira: “With this combination, we create citizens with a stronger outlook on public health and about valuing life.”

Speaker at the workshop, the Undersecretary of Health Surveillance, Fabiano dos Anjos, reinforced: “This strategy comes to bring to the education environment this great challenge, which is to bring together knowledge, skills and attitudes, to combat dengue in the Federal District, together”.

The project gives protagonism to the teacher, placing him as the main creator of knowledge to combat mosquitoes. “The teacher has a power, which is to guide”, highlights the director of Primary Care in the Southern Health region, Regiane Martins. “For us, this moment is very important, when the teacher understands that dengue can be addressed in the syllabus of all subjects”.

Creating citizens

For the director of CED 8, Francisco Sobrinho, the event reinforces the school’s participation as a trainer of citizens. “This issue is extremely important to raise the future generation, so that children think and become adults aware of arboviruses”, he assessed.

The coordination between the two departments was planned by the Intersectoral Executive Group for Management of the Plan for the Prevention and Control of Dengue and other Diseases Transmitted by Aedes (Geiplandengue) of the Southern Health Region, which covers Gama and Santa Maria.

“It is necessary to strengthen the relationship between territories, families, communities”, highlighted the group’s coordinator, Maria Aparecida Ribeiro Gama. “We cannot work in the solitary sphere of just talking about the disease. We need to be preventive, and for that, we need mobilization and the construction of knowledge in the territories”.

In practice

The next phase of the project will be the practical work of around 320 students, who will accompany community health and environmental health surveillance agents in home inspections in the region, at the end of May. In addition to health professionals, the Federal District Fire Department (CBMDF) and Civil Defense will also be present at the action.

*With information from the Department of Health