The expansion of the allowances, the Pregnancy allowance and the improvement of the allowances for adoption and comprehensive care were some of the advances that were made throughout the country under the “Law of a Thousand Days”, sanctioned a year ago together to the Law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy.
“In this first year we began to work together with all the provinces in the projection of the general lines that we have to address, contemplating the particularities of each territory; in that dialogue, five large groups of public policies were identified on which we have already begun to develop actions ”, He told Télam Gabriela bauer, Director of Perinatal Health and Children of the Ministry of Health.
Law 27,611 of “Attention and Comprehensive Health Care during Pregnancy and Early Childhood”, known as the Thousand Days, since it is a reference of approximate time between pregnancy, birth and three years of life, was sanctioned on December 30 of last year.
The Law establishes prevention and protection practices promoting a comprehensive view of this course of life, understanding the very diverse realities in which families care for and raise their children and how communities accompany them in such care.
The Law ensures access to a comprehensive care system, through income, identity, health, social development, education, protection, gender, and culture policies.
Bauer stressed that on this anniversary there are “a celebratory spirit, because beyond the pandemic we were able to work hard in planning and projecting the strategies and policies that this Law establishes”.
He explained that in the area of Social Security “we are making progress with the expansion of allowances, Pregnancy, the improvement of allowances for adoption and comprehensive care.
About Identity -he said- “we are with the National Registry of Persons (ReNaPer) in the new certificates and with the health teams in better strategies for the identification of newborns.”
“In the Health group from a comprehensive perspective, we include everything that has to do with the prevention of prematurity, improving the coverage of breastfeeding in co-responsibility, anemia as a prevalent problem and child development,” he listed.
The official pointed out that “The fourth group is that of the prevention and approach of violence, in which we have been working together with the Ministry of Women through the development of guides on co-responsibility in care and upbringing”.
“The fifth group is that of the Right to Information, and in this sense a coordination of all the organizations that articulate these policies was built that advances in the publication and dissemination of all the guides and tools that are built in this regard,” he added. .
Bauer remarked that “the law provides for a dashboard of indicators that must be presented annually to Congress from the regulation of the norm, such as data on infant maternal mortality, lactation, percentage of control of pregnancies, prevalence of prematurity and coverage of allocations. among other data ”.
“This year we were not only able to regulate the Law, coordinate with all jurisdictions and define the prioritized lines of policies to be addressed, but also, despite the 2022 budget not having been approved, we were able to begin to carry out vital actions such as the tender for cribs. of the Safe Sleep program, the purchase of formula milk and medication to prevent prematurity, among others ”, he highlighted.
“Another milestone this year was the meeting that was held in Tecnópolis, in which a present state was shown and in conjunction with all the organizations and agencies that work on childhood”, Bauer completed.
The Law ensures access to a comprehensive system of care, through policies for income, identity, health, social development, education, protection, gender, and culture.
The idea of ”1,000 days” is a reference to the time, counted in approximate days, in which the pregnancy, birth and up to 3 years of life elapse. It is an important period because it has profound effects on the integral health both in that present and in the future of people.