Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
10/02/2013
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Agency of Brazil
Rio de Janeiro - About 100 healthcare professionals , including physicians and nurses , gathered in the afternoon ( 1 ) at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics Jamil Haddad ( Into) in St Kitts , northern Rio , to launch the Strengthen project . The initiative aims to teach children about the importance of prevention and chronic orthopedic diseases in childhood .
The comedian Renato Aragão , godfather of the project , which for 22 years serves as an ambassador for the United Nations Foundation for Children ( UNICEF ) , attended the launching ceremony of the project. It is also representative of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016 .
According to pediatrician Germana Bahr , creator of Strengthen , 94 children are in line for an orthopedic surgery Into. The average waiting time is three years , which worsens the patient's health . At the apex of the disease , the child needs to be hospitalized for about 21 days to recover , and it was in idle time that the team found a space that could be used for teaching a better quality of life .
" It was in pediatrics that the idea of the project . We try to use this spare time of the child in something constructive to your health . Mascots think of to give face to the project , which we call the Class Valente , and from them we developed several brochures , videos , plays with puppets and even a siteinterativo to teach children how to have a healthy life in ten steps , "he explained .
In this first phase, the program will act only on Strengthen Into, but the pediatrician assured that you want to expand it to other locations . " The site is available to all , and not only to patients Into. We intend to distribute future, these booklets in public schools , to race in support of child health, pediatric training to deal with children's bone scan , but rather we are seeking partners who support the program , "he said .
Edition : Aecio Amado
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