The health education project has already guided more than 13,000 students and highlighted prevention measures in Omurama

From March this year until the beginning of September, an audience of more than 13,000 students has already been educated on how to take care of dengue and Covid (prevention and vaccination) and now on how to avoid accidents with poisonous animals, thanks to the health education project of the Environmental Health Surveillance Service. This Wednesday, the 13th, it is the turn of the students from Escola Municipal São Francisco de Assis, located in Parque Alphaville.

The project works on campaigns, where each topic is presented at every stage in all municipal schools. In São Francisco, students in the fourth and fifth grades and in the early grades of elementary school were included.

The health project is a partnership between municipal health departments through environmental monitoring and education. “Our goal is to guide children on complex topics, such as dengue, Covid, poisonous animals and vaccination, all laid out in a playful way for better understanding,” explains Endemic Disease Control Agent Ana Paula da Silva Baixão Fieldhouse, Agent Franciel Cristina do Nascimento Paulino’s partner in the initiative.

It is the agents themselves who create the puppets (puppets and marionettes), develop the scripts, produce the scene, narrate and provide the guidelines in the form of children’s stories, with lots of music (parody) and “suspense” with the characters. In full interaction with the audience. “It is heartwarming to see the children’s engagement and energy, and I am sure they will take this learning home,” said Maria Aparecida Vargenes Pérez, the school’s principal.

The project, aimed at students, also involves teachers, staff and principals of municipal schools, provoking reflection on health and the environment, highlighting everyday actions that can help improve quality of life, reduce disease risks and promote prevention, protection and healthy recovery.

Thanks to this initiative, students from almost all municipal schools in Omurama received guidance on how the infection is transmitted, identifying symptoms and ways to prevent dengue and COVID-19, and the importance of vaccines to prevent diseases (identifying which vaccines are associated with the disease). diseases they prevent), and at this stage the life and development of venomous animals – such as scorpions, bees, spiders and snakes, each with its own character – highlight ways to prevent accidents.

Topics will be presented with performances using puppets, story gloves, shadow theatre, “fingers” and costumes. “The students are directed to monitor the environment in which they live and take better care of their health, in addition to producing drawings, reports and brochures about preventive health,” Francelle Paulino added.

“Education is one of the main measures to promote health, and is of great importance both in the prevention of diseases and their rehabilitation, in addition to awakening citizenship and social responsibility and training workers and caregivers,” explains the Health Surveillance Coordinator, Franzimar de Moraes. .