The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, visited this Monday the CEIP Güime, one of the centers that have implemented the pioneering pilot project of School Health, launched by the Island Institution and dynamized by the Official College of Nursing of Las Palmas (CELP), with the support and collaboration of both the Ministry of Education and the municipalities of San Bartolomé, Tinajo and Tías.
The project has been developed since the beginning of the course in the educational centers of the municipalities of Tías, Tinajo and San Bartolomé, where for the first time there has been a nurse in the classrooms to carry out education and health promotion activities.
The initiative covers a total of 17 educational centers, 12 of these schools of Infant and Primary Education and five institutes of Secondary Education. So far, 366 health education activities have been carried out aimed at students. 54% have been aimed at promoting healthy eating, 27% to hygiene advice, personal care and affective-sexual education, 7% to issues related to the prevention of drug use, 4% to emotional well-being and 2% to the prevention of accidents and first aid. All these activities have reached 6,072 students from these three municipalities.
In addition, 19 health promotion activities have been carried out aimed at the staff of the centers on potentially serious symptoms and first aid, with a reach of 539 teachers and 121 members of non-teaching staff. For families, five activities were carried out on healthy breakfast and emotional health.
This project has been promoted and supported from the first moment by the president of the Cabildo, setting a precedent and being an example for other councils such as Gran Canaria, which joined the project encouraged by the results in Lanzarote.
Best Scientific Poster
The president took the opportunity to congratulate the nurses Sheila Cedrés, from Tías, and Laura Mora and Pilar Santana, from San Bartolomé, who have been in charge of developing the project for their recent award as the Best Scientific Poster of those presented to the first edition of the Conference on Updating and Advances in School Nursing, organized by the Spanish Scientific Association of Nursing and School Health.
“This has been a pioneering commitment of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and for me it is a professional and personal pride to see how the nurses who have helped us to make it possible have been recognized by an entity of such relevance as the Spanish Scientific Association of Nursing and School Health, rewarding Lanzarote and our services at the national level”, stressed the president.
“Today more than ever, from the Cabildo we are proud to have been the first to bet on a resource as necessary as health in the classrooms, insofar as even the Cabildo of Gran Canaria has begun to bet on a similar initiative to emulate its success in Lanzarote”, Dolores Corujo stressed.
The visit was also attended by the island councilor of Education, Myriam Barros, the island director of Education, Celeste Callero, and the director of the educational center.
