Our team, together with our partners, continues to conduct educational visits to target regions to trainnurses and medical assistants in educational institutions to:
provide first aid, including recognizing different types of injuries, performing cardiopulmonaryresuscitation correctly, and stopping bleeding;
improve the health of schoolchildren and promote the prevention of non-communicable diseases by initiating changes and various activities in educational institutions;
support children with chronic diseases such as diabetes, bronchial asthma, and cardiovascular diseases;
provide psychological assistance to oneself, colleagues, and schoolchildren and spread knowledge about mental health through various tools, including the interactive exhibition Mental Trek.
We wrote more about Mental Trek in this post: https://bit.ly/3YzCSLb
Forty-two medical workers and teachers from Rivne oblast took part in the training course “Healthy School: Strengthening Health and Preventing Non-Communicable Diseases in Educational Institutions”.
Serhiy Podolin, Oleh Vivsiannyk, Olena Handziuk, Maryna Pashkovskaya, Iryna Skorbun, Elena Nazarova, and Nataliya Fesovets participated in the opening ceremony.
We would like to thank Lviv Medical College of Postgraduate Education, Rivne Regional State Administration, Department of Civil Protection and Public Health of the Rivne Regional State Administration, Department of Education and Science of the Rivne Regional State Administration, and the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine for their cooperation and financial support.