The Ministers of Health, Carla Vizzotti, and of Women, Gender and Diversity, Ayelén Mazzina, In the province of San Luis, they began distributing kits to promote shared breastfeeding and favor the continuity of work and education for women who breastfeed.
In San Luis, the delivery of the first 200 kits of a total of 25,000 that are planned to be distributed throughout the country in a first stage within the framework of the Thousand Days Plan and through the Remediar program began.
In addition to these breastfeeding items, consisting of a thermal bag, an ergonomic plastic breast pump, a collection bottle, a hand towel, breast protectors and a breastfeeding guide, the training for women and dissidents and technical assistance.
Women are expected to receive these items from the first postnatal visit in public health facilities throughout the country.
In addition, a complementary inter-ministerial work act was signed for co-responsibility with men in breastfeeding actions.
For the delivery of kits workers will be prioritized of private houses, of the popular economy, social plans, beneficiaries of the Acompañar program, construction workers, agrarian and women and dissidents attached to the social monotribute.
“More than 20% of women and other people who breastfeed are forced to give up or stop breastfeeding in order to return to work or study. This often frustrates them, because we know the importance of human milk in the first 6 months of each child’s life,” said Mazzina.
In turn, he stated that “it is important that as a society we understand that this is not an exclusive task of these people”, but that “The responsibility for breastfeeding must be shared.”
For this reason, he indicated that, with the contribution of these kits, “the State is caring for the health of childrenin addition to favoring right of women and pregnant persons to continue with their studies or their work”.
For his part, Vizzotti pointed out that “this is a State policy that is built collectively” and highlighted the articulated work carried out with the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity of the Nation (MMGyD).
“This policy seeks to reach every nursing person, in every corner of the country, who needs the support of the State to clear up doubts, receive information and overcome barriers,” he asserted.
He also stressed the importance of continuing to work to Involve fathers and masculinities in shared breastfeeding.
The officials signed a complementary act to the framework agreement between both Ministries as part of the actions promoted by the Coordinating Unit of the Thousand Days Law.
Breastfeeding “is a collective and social responsibility, therefore, it must be supported in the family, work, and social spheres, as well as promoted by the State through public policies that favor its exercise and allow more inclusive and egalitarian practices,” it was indicated. from the Women’s Ministry
The activity was carried out at the “Malvinas Argentina” Primary Health Care Center (CAPS), located in the west of the San Luis capital, and was attended by the Nation’s Secretary of Access to Health, Sandra Tirado and the Minister of Health of San Luis, Rosa Dávila.
Vizzotti paid tribute to health personnel who worked during the pandemic
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, with her partner from San Luis, Rosa Dávila and the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Ayelén Mazzinahonored the health personnel who worked in the province during the coronavirus pandemic.
The event took place this afternoon at the White Room of the Government House of San Luiswhere the work of the different actors who intervened in the most critical moments of the pandemic was highlighted.
Within this framework, Minister Vizzotti delivered to the biochemist Carina Chirino a sheet, with the replica of the mural made at the Malbrán Institute in homage to health workers. Chirino represented San Luis in said mural.
“They were very difficult moments that we had to face as a society, and the work carried out by the health workers was really essential to sustain the tension that the system was suffering due to the demand for cases, many of them giving up their lives,” said the official. .
He also referred to the importance of the mural that was made at the Malbrán Institute in homage to health workers, as a way of “transforming pain” through art and to “reinforce” the memory of what happened to us by honoring To all staff.
Chirino, who represented San Luis in the mural, works as head of Microbiology and deputy head of the Laboratory of the “Juan Domingo Perón” Regional Polyclinic Hospital in Villa Mercedes.
During the pandemic, and thanks to her career in molecular biology, she was one of the promoters of the rapid assembly of the area to accompany the assembly of diagnoses.
“It is very gratifying to receive this recognition, but it really is for the entire health team that worked tirelessly during the pandemic,” Chirino said.
On the other hand, it was awarded recognition to the muralist, illustrator and painter, Gonzalo Álvarez, from the San Luis town of Cortaderas, who was selected in the “Ramón Carrillo” National Muralism Contest, for his mural “Changuitos de mi tierra” made in a rural school in the interior of the province.
