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The live character is the Colombian Red Cross and the Red Cross that celebrates 100 years of the traditional and emblematic flag collection campaign which for a century has been a fundamental pillar and driving force of humanitarian action in the country and of course in Quindío.
The Red Cross in the department of Quindío will have several activities in this area and that is why Jaime Alzate, director of the Red Cross in Quindío, accompanies us. and explained “the Cross is a humanitarian institution that works with and for the community, we are this entity that, as I said to other people, the Red Cross is total Colombia and Colombia is the Red Cross, therefore everything that happens to Colombia is the Cross Roja will always be there, as we say, a shot from the cannon.
And he added “this little flag campaign begins in 1924 when a group of volunteers took that little cookie jar and put a leaf in it and painted a cross on it and went out to collect money in Bogotá which was where the campaign started, because in order to finance the first dose services that they provided on weekends and when they came in an emergency at the time, because there were not as many as today because there was not as much demographic density as we have. Today, not so many cars, not so much, but nevertheless, there were landslides, there were floods there, there were fires and the Red Cross began to be present.”
Little flag campaign, health day against dengue
We are going to do one that the strategy this year is called 32 causes for humanity in which the Red Cross He is going to try to show the community and carry out a primary health care exercise, which is the new approach to managing everything that has to do with epidemics and diseases.
In the department of Quindío and More specifically, in Armenia, cases have been detected where there are outbreaks in some neighborhoods of hemorrhagic dengue such as the Miraflores neighborhood. It is even a disease that, as grandmothers said, if caught badly, can cause death, so it is a pathology, since it is quite aggressive and requires a transfusion of platelets to save life.
And I add “So we are going to work with the community that primary health care is focused on prevention, dengue is a virus that for now there is no vaccine because until the last thing we saw from the PAHO and WHO literature there are four types of viruses, therefore it has been impossible to get four from here in the first one because they may get a vaccine and you who have exposed to three, then the only thing that remains is the preventive part, such as that it is a disease that is a virus that is transmitted by a mosquito.
What does it consist of?
The idea is to teach people to control the vector, many people, for example in their house have plants with water and without wanting to, as Chavo said, they have the cultivation of mosquitoes in the housethen you have to check the water for larvae, if it has larvae, change all the containers where there is water and secondly the water tanks in the laundry room, normally the Ministry of Health is in a campaign where they are delivering a chemical to put in that laundry room. To kill the larvae you have to check people who have old tires in the yard, jars, rims, among others.
Transition from dry to rainy season
A transition stage between the boy and the girl, so we have one day of downpours and two days of heat, so those are a breeding ground for the mosquitoes. As soon as he sees the little puddle, he lays the egg and the sun hatches it. In two days we have larvae, so that part is quite complex, so we can’t say how we young people today give papaya. So if we leave a puddle there and then the mosquito comes and lays eggs and the sun comes and warms it and we have a mosquito incubator, then that is what we have to work on separately, preventively, even on the roofs where there is a puddle of water on the roof and there we have a crop in our own house
Let’s teach people to take care of use the mosquito net for the bed because what beats me is that I put the mosquito net and I sleep next to the bedthen the mosquito from above is going to bite the mesh, so especially with the small children of a child or a baby, then with the mosquito net you have to put it under the mattress so that it is well sealed, because the mosquito looks for a way to enter where you leave a little hole there and the mesh is so that he laughs and looks at you, but I can’t apply it, he wants to bite it, but if I leave a small opening there he enters then that It is primary health care before people don’t get sick because when I get sick, we have full hospitals.
The director of the Red Cross in the department of Quindío Jaime Giovanni Alzate Angarita and the blood donation campaign, which is donating life, and indicated “this morning normally when one arrives at the office, I do a review of the entire institution. We sat down with all the areas, and I went to the bank and oh, surprise we have a refrigerator, there is no unit of zero positive which is the largest amount the largest the largest number of people in Colombia we are are the positive ones, so at this moment yes There is a big emergency like the one they were talking about right now in Pereira, there is no blood to care for anyone.
Flag campaign
In the municipalities, as is traditional, we are going to have piggy banks so that in the square the boys go out and do well, but right now we have another new strategy with the technology that exists now and since no one charges money anymore, instead Come on, I’ll make a transfer. We are also entering fashion and we have a Q code and a frequency And tomorrow we will be launching, we haven’t launched it yet because I don’t know if they get it these days, I sent them a message that on WhatsApp they were asking for money for a name, of course yes, so they don’t go to the scammers, So yes, horrible. We are right now changing our strategy, for example, like the Spanish Red Cross has what they call partners of the Red Cross, so, for example, all the people say, the whole idea is that you are from the Red Cross, but I I can’t donate blood, but I can say I give you 20,000. I give you 10,000. I give them 40 to do what I can’t do so they are called community partners of the Red Cross.
