Man from Simiatug, place where FAC was created
The development of programmes for primary rural health care was FAC’s first line of action and the reason for its conception. These latter programs prioritise education, the training of human resources, the prevention of the most commons diseases and medical care in remote communities.
The work is aimed at risk groups in the community, such as the tuberculosis screening programme, the Healthy Schools programme. Once the activity has been coordinated with the community and its leaders, our professionals move to the field, taking equipment and medicines with them.
Health work in the community would be impossible without the support of the rural, indigenous organisations in the area who act as a counterpart and are an essential component of the process, giving legitimacy and weight to the activities of FAC.
Children of the community La Florida, Facundo Vela
The rural programme activities are performed in two main areas. The first is the creation of healthy schools, for which we conduct medical / dental care campaigns for school children, training teachers and parents and improving the hygiene conditions in the schools (for example, building toilet facilities). The second, most imporatant area, is the control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, depending on the epidemiological situation of each area. The third is the training of the human resources as community health workers or technologists in primary health care, more information about our Health Education line can be found here.