According to Comolay, since they opened the University Health Accessibility area at the university in 2015, “the demand increases every year.”
The installed offices offer care in Medical Clinic, Sexual Reproductive Health, Nutrition and Dentistry.
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Comolay indicated that the incorporation of students from the nodes “to all the benefits and university life that takes place in Viedma is one of the policies that Dean Adriana Goicochea set for us from the beginning.”
“Based on that guideline, I addressed each director of the hospitals to articulate why our complex has offices in Viedma. The first consultation with each student will be by telemedicine and in case of detection of a risk factor or diagnosis of a disease, they will be referred to each hospital so that they can locally access the x-ray service, laboratory or a referral to a specialty within of the health zone in which the student is inserted,” he added.
“The difference with a health center in the public system is that they come here healthy. That is, they arrive with angina, the flu or some trauma, but they come healthy and want to maintain their quality of life and their body healthy to advance in their academic career,” he emphasized.
The Medical Clinic office is in charge of Dr. Martín Calvelo, the Nutrition office is in charge of Lic. Paula Montero de Espionsa, the Dentistry office is in charge of Antonella Maradona and the Sexual Reproductive Health office is in charge of Carlos Comolay.
“We were very well received because not only does it open the door to health care for the students but also the entire structure of the institutional project is made available, which has a Research and Development area, another Health Care area, and a Patient School area,” he added.
“They have made their Programmed Activities teams available for the Area, which are made up of health agents, general practitioners, and community nurses to work from now on,” Comolay concluded.
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What is the CURZAS Patient School?
This is a project that proposes to give prominence to people who live with a chronic non-communicable disease so that they guide other people in the university community who are experiencing the same disease.
The Patient School seeks to connect the sensitivity and knowledge that these people have of their pathologies to help others. “Adherence to treatments for chronic diseases is very difficult and sometimes it is easier to listen to a peer than to a doctor, a nurse or a health agent,” defined the Secretary of Student Welfare.
As detailed, CURZAS-UNCo carries out training workshops for patients who wish to be references who then work under nursing and medical supervision.
“It is a job of great social sensitivity to look for references in each city where, together with the hospital and the university, they can reach these patients so that they can acquire tools,” he concluded.
