2023-06-20 17:24:16
The students of the seventh semester of the Medicine career of the National University of Chimborazo (Unach) carry out educational campaigns to prevent malnutrition in children.
Socialization. Unach is linked to childhood, the country’s future doctors, in coordination with the director of the ‘San Luis Rey de Francia’ school, yesterday developed a socialization with the boys and girls of the campus where 152 children are prepared, from initial to tenth of basic.
Control. The group of 38 Unach students were divided into groups to control the boys and girls, in the first instance the height and weight were controlled, to determine the level of nutrition of the children.
Work. The student Carlos Barreno, from the seventh semester of Medicine, said that they are working with 120 students from the ‘San Luis Rey de Francia’ school, they have carried out different types of activities, not only in said campus, but also in others in the canton.
Coordination. The main issue is child nutrition and anthropometric measurements and that they have a great opening in the schools in which they are working, because there is a willingness of the authorities and teachers to deal with the issue of malnutrition and adequate nutrition for each one of them. children, to improve their nutritional habits with the participation of parents who are the ones who prepare food for the children who are educated in said educational establishment.
Need. Barreno said that they are looking for information that allows them to establish the range in which boys and girls really fall in terms of child malnutrition in the educational establishments in which they are working, because the INEC data is information from four to four years ago. five years. and that this avoids knowing the current reality in relation to child malnutrition.
recreational. For the children to have a moment of leisure, inflatable games from the ‘Winky’ event agency run by Diego Andrés Lomelín were installed, where the boys and girls had the best and to complete they presented the show of the little clown ‘Junior’, who has been around for 20 years. years on stage making the audience laugh and this time was no exception because it was interactive with the participation of the Unach students and the teachers who were in charge of the children.
In reality, they lacked time to develop the program in the educational establishment that is in charge of Magister Ángel Culqui.
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