In Trebišov opened Control hygiene point, outdoor tent, at the most used entry into the Roma community. This is another one of the projects in the fight against the pandemic COVID-19 contributory organization of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic Healthy regions. The project, which will gradually be extended to other parts of Slovakia, was piloted in Trebišov in cooperation with Trebišov Regional Public Health Office, Trebišov City and City Police. The health check point serves as a background for the work of health support assistants with Roma communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. They provide information on how to protect themselves against the disease or guide travelers. The project aims to effectively and effectively prevent and protect the health of inhabitants of marginalised Roma communities as well as residents of adjacent municipalities. The coronavirus situation is currently stable and closely monitored by health support assistants in these regions. We're thinking of all the population groups. Information on how to protect yourself and your loved ones from infection is important to move to all corners of Slovakia. I appreciate this project and thank its organisers and implementers as they can carry out important monitoring, prevention and awareness-raising through it, stated Minister of Health Marek Krajčí. The external tent, Control Hygiene Point, can also be used for other educational or preventive activities of the organisation Healthy regions. After evaluating the pilot project in Trebišov, also according to the epidemiological situation, the contribution organisation of the Ministry of Health plans to open at least 10 external tents, health check points, in other municipalities and cities within the national project -Korona Te Merel-Korona. The idea to launch the pilot project was the experience of our field workers who provide free advice in places with a majority population of marginalised Roma communities. At the same time, where necessary, they provide personal protective equipment for people who cannot afford them normally because of their disadvantaged socio-economic situation. In this way we wanted to strengthen the possibility for Roma communities to prevent the introduction of COVID-19 from the external environment, stressed Director of the Contribution Organisation Healthy regions of Tatiana Hustič.
He also appreciated the project Mayor of Trebišov, PhDr. Marek Čizmár: We are pleased that the mutual cooperation of all the components involved continues in the form of the project, and we are convinced that effective prevention and health protection activities will produce the desired results.Prior to the launch of the pilot project, health support assistants participated in specialized training led by epidemiologists focused on COVID-19 and its prevention. The role of assistants is to carry out activities aimed at educating, preventing and educating. In prevention, they focus on the use of personal protective equipment, hand disinfection and body temperature measurement. In the framework of the provision of free preventive education, they report on the basic recommendations and regulations related to the current epidemiological situation in Slovakia and carry out regular monitoring in this community. They provide information on how and the conditions for preventing COVID-19. At the Control Hygiene Point, health support assistants also focus on monitoring and guidance of travelers. Following instructions from the Public Health Office, they identify the country from which returnees arrived (especially from Great Britain), help them register and report to the Trebišov Regional Public Health Office, prepare and motivate a list of people for testing. Assistants will order them and help ensure arrival at mobile pick-ups. They also cooperate in checking compliance with household isolation. If the patient shows positive results, assistants will find out his close contacts and activities in the past period. Health Checkpoint staff have contactless thermometer, hand disinfection and disinfection for surfaces and clothing, as well as personal protective equipment - protective drapes and gloves. Healthy regions, aimed at combating the Coronavirus pandemic (www.koronatemerel.sk). Health support assistants work on a daily basis in three shifts from early morning to afternoon hours. The whole team is managed by a coordinator of health support assistants in cooperation with the town of Trebišov, with active involvement of municipal police officers, Roma Order Service and Regional Public Officehealth care based in Trebišov.As part of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, the contribution organization has the task of helping the health department in solving the COVID-19 pandemic in the environment of marginalized Roma communities. The organisation has been successfully implemented since January 2017 National project Healthy 2B communities thanks to support from the European Social Fund under the Human Resources Operational Programme.Organisation Healthy regions is a state contribution organization of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, whose mission is to implement and develop temporary countervailing measures in the field of health. The implementation and development of health mediation in marginalised Roma communities is a set of activities to improve health conditions. Activities and activities focus on social determinants of health, such as health-related behaviour, material conditions, psycho-social factors, barriers to access to health care, health literacy and structural constraints, e.g. discrimination, racism, low levels of education, related legislation. For more information, see the organisation's website: https://www.healthregion.eu/.
