Month: February 2012

Healthy workshops have taken place on Monday November 21, and were destined exclusively to children in first grade in both locations. Virgen del Carmen Cultural Centre of Torrevieja and the culture House of Guardamar have been the places chosen for the development of an afternoon in which alternated playful and informative activities with actions aimed at the prevention and early detection of diseases.

Four dentists, two optometrists, a dental hygienist and more than one dozen of nurses worked in healthy circuit that allowed children can know what are those most appropriate food for their growth, the importance of dental hygiene and the advantages posed precociously detect vision problems in order to prevent future disease.

About a thousand schoolchildren have been summoned to this quote which, in a way that is enjoyable and carefree, a circuit which began with the healthy workshop was conducted “ nursing you care ”, which could make drawings, complete sheets and learn new healthy lifestyle habits.

Children have been called in small groups and have been able to perform circuit accompanied by their parents. First, initiated the review oral in which professionals detected possible hygiene, or dental problems informing schoolchildren themselves on the importance of the clean teeth daily and to those patients who needed it to the realization of a more comprehensive review.

While the children were examined, the parents received a brochure on amblyopia which had to fill five questions about possible signs of lack of visual acuity in their children, then the Optometrists conducted a comprehensive review by a control type screening that enabled to detect vision disorders that may cause a deficit in the vision Centern of one or both eyes, a condition known as amblyopia.

Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is the visual impairment in one eye caused by a bad image on the retina, which generates a suppression of from visual function of the eye at the cerebral level. Detection, in most cases comes preceded by signs observed by parents or teachers, hence the importance of this campaign directed at children.

The evening concluded with a healthy snack oriented to the consolidation of the learned habits, offering also informative tips to parents on the importance of the purchase, handling and preservation of food.

The Department of health of Torrevieja studied to extend this initiative to other municipalities in the area of health in order to achieve 100 per cent of children in school age, in this way, new calls are not discarded in the coming months.

Universal Children’s day

In 1954 the UN General Assembly recommended that he instituted in all countries a universal children’s day, which is devoted to the fraternity and understanding among children around the world and would be allocated to activities to promote the well-being of children around the world, and suggested to Governments that they held the day on the date that each deems appropriate. On 20 November marks the date at which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the rights of the child in 1959 and the Convention on the rights of the child in 1989.