A set of medical screenings and awareness campaigns were held in March in Silves. This initiative resulted from a cooperation protocol established between the municipality of Silves and the Company Tecnifar - Industrial Technique, which allowed the implementation of the "SMS - Medical Social Solidarity."These screenings took place in Fissul and four school groups in the county. In the building Fissul exams to be adult and elderly population, between 9:30 a.m. and 18:00 without interruption. In school groups are privileged children of the first cycle of basic education, happening activity between 09:30 am and 17:30. There were also traces of HIV / AIDS and collection / donation of blood, with collaboration from the mobile CAD and Faro Hospital Center in the western Algarve.
Thus, during the days when these actions take place, all interested parties can make visual traces, participate in moments of awareness on oral hygiene, making nutritional assessments, various measurements (blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol and body mass index), Densitometry Bone (to determine the presence or absence of osteoporosis), ECG and spirometry (exams that let you see how your lungs by measuring the amount of air that can support and speed of expirations).
In the case of schools have been conducted also traces the children flagged for visual effect, and an Action Awareness Oral Hygiene for all students.
Altogether, the initiative will involve the participation of 25 health professionals, including physicians and nurses, in addition to the staff of the Municipality of Silves, especially the technicians of the Social Sector - Division of Sport, Youth and Social Action, which will coordinate this initiative.
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More praise from a local government initiative; fortunately beginning to emerge that municipalities understand the needs of local populations. Although we know that many other mayors still invest thousands of euros on luxury trips abroad by (where is the government and Procudaria General's Office to investigate these trips?), today begins a new generation of people in town that put the interests community above the interests of their navels.
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