Campaign expands poisoning prevention in children with RS

With the campaign "Every day's a poisoning prevention," the Toxicology Information Center-CIT of Rio Grande do Sul wants to expand this year, actions designed to prevent accidental poisonings. Instead of concentrating on alert on Aug. 20, Day State Accident Prevention Toxics (State Law 11804, June 2002), the court scheduled a calendar of awareness, especially for accidents at home and with children. The next two events are already scheduled for this Wednesday (23).

On these occasions, technicians of CIT / RS distribute educational games for children and information on poisoning prevention to family members and caregivers in hospitals in Porto Alegre have beds with inpatient, outpatient and pediatric emergencies. The target audience is children in hospital, waiting and / or in-hospital medical care and their families and carers. This year, initiatives of this kind, 1,600 people have been involved.

The activities consist of educational games with the material "Scratch and Scrawl" and "Paint with the Dudley" (block illustrated with drawings to color and games that address situations of toxic risk in childhood). Participants also receive a Healthy Community Magazine and boxes of crayons for the kids, and flyers with prevention of accidents and toxic packs of stickers with the emergency phone 24 hours of CIT / RS 0800-721-3000.

The same actions have already been developed at the Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio - Complexo Santa Casa de Misericordia de Porto Alegre and Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre. The upcoming events will still be scheduled with other hospitals in the capital. CIT / RS is administered by the State Foundation of Production and Research in Health-FEPPS, an institution linked to the State Department of Health

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