Abstract
Describe the experience of extension activities in the prevention of COVID-19 with children from public school system. Experience report of critical and reflexive approach on the extension experience of the project "Healthcare at School" (Atenção à Saúde na Escola), in the COVID-19 pandemic context, in a countryside town in the State of Goias, in March 2020. It is carried out five hand sanitizing workshops as a prevention for COVID-19 with 57 children from 2 to 5 years old in the State of Goias. The playful approach in a low-cost workshop format was a strategy to meet an emergency requirement of the Community in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
On March 11, 2020, World Health Organization decreed that the world faced a pandemic caused by the COVID-19
First time defined in December 2019, in China, COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the coronavirus of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and it is present in 114 countries[1]
Data about child population from 1 to 5 years old is restricted to those hospitalized by SARS-CoV-2
Summary
On March 11, 2020, World Health Organization decreed that the world faced a pandemic caused by the COVID-19. Workshops were conducted by 15 undergraduates in the health field (Physiotherapy and Nursing), supervised by coordinating teachers of the Extension project“Healthcare at School”(Atenção à Saúde na Escola), which objectives are: develop actions of prevention, promotion and health monitoring of children and adolescents enrolled in the public school system; b) disseminate scientific knowledge of health among the children and youth population; and c) offer a teaching and learning space for undergraduate students of the educational institution to which they are linked This project is carried out in accord with public health issues relevant to the population for which it is intended. There are no reports of cases in children in the region
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