Medical info centre at PAPI Sînpaul
10.05.2011
| The PAPI in Sînpaul, Cluj County, offers local medical information. The initiative follows a partnership between the Sînpaul City Hall, the Centre for Public Health and Health Policies, the Social Research Institute and the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences of the Babeş Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. |
The project was materialised by starting, at PAPI, a medical information centre under the motto “Health that everyone can understand”; it aims to help locals in finding medical information. The centre has more than 150 materials on health topics that can be browsed in the reading room or taken home by any local.
“The information point has a mini-library including not just medical books, atlases, encyclopedias and a Family Health Guide, but also video materials created by the Discovery Channel, like the Biggest Discoveries in Medicine, Chemistry, Biology and Genetics, as well as the series “Atlas of the Human Body”, spanning 6 dvds. The materials can be watched or studied at PAPI. At the same time, in school, in the IT lab and on KEP-provided computers, pupils attend medical education activities”, Codruţ Verde, PAPI Sînpaul IT administrator.
The project involves the Sînpaul Communal Library and the Dr. Monica Morea private medical practice.
“Together for healthy rural communities”
Partners in the programme signed the “Contract Together for Healthy Rural Communities”, which sounds as follows: “We, Sînpaul City Hall, PAPI Centre, Sînpaul Communal Library and the Dr. Monica Morea private medical practice, together with the Centre for Public Health and Health Policies, the Social Research Institute and the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences of the Babeş Bolyai University, decided to actively provide health education to the local population and jointly fight for a healthier community. To reach our goal, we will facilitate access to medical information and encourage proactive research from community members. Our involvement is an answer to the need of having healthy and informed rural communities!”.
Manager Liliana Băndilă signed the document as PAPI representative. The project also benefited from a partnership with the Romanian Anti-AIDS Association and the Estuar Foudnation, which donated informational materials.
Information for locals
“Already many people were interested in our small medical library. The elderly are reading up books talking about rheumatic afflictions while the younger want to see the atlases and video materials”, Codruţ Verde explains. “Four our commune, the project is really beneficial. Its bring the medical information that people need. And information means education and a lower risk of sickness”, Sînpaul Mayor Ovidiu Colceriu says.
The initiative is a part of the project called “Evaluating the access of rural population to medic information”, organised by the Centre for Public Health and Health Policies from 2009 to 2011 in 758 communes in 12 Transylvanian counties.
“Due to its approach the projects offers rich data regarding public access to medical information, which can be generalised to the entire Transylvanian region. This will allow us to develop and test interventions regarding access to information about health in the countryside”, a press release of the centre states
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