The new environmental program of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario It arises from an agreement signed with the Environmental Clinical Corporation of the Republic of Ecuador and the Doctors of the World Association of Argentina.
La Universidad Nacional de Rosario, the Environmental Clinical Corporation of the Republic of Ecuador and the Doctors of the World Association of Argentina, signed an agreement for the creation of the Research, Training, Advice, Extension and Dissemination Program “Clínica Ambiental Sede Argentina” (CASA).
It seeks to replicate the Ecuadorian experience at the local level, in the application of socio-environmental repair policies, acting on the social fabric and the harmonious relationships between soils, plants, animals and people.
In the meeting that was held in a hybrid way with the rector Franco Bartolacci, the director of the CEI, Dario Maiorana, and the promoter of CASA, Damián Verzeñassi at the Government Headquarters of the UNR, and Adolfo Maldonado, from the Environmental Clinic Corporation of Ecuador, together with other members of the project and related organizations, through a video call.
“I want to thank this possibility, which enables us to deepen the very important work that the UNR does in this matter, and create more devices to give more volume to the intervention and the environmental issue. We are aware of the importance of this problem, the situation that the world is going through, and the contribution that the University has to make in this regard” highlighted Rector Bartolacci.
The Environmental Clinic Corporation of Ecuador, created in 2015, has been coordinating activities with different social organizations on issues such as the protection of ecosystems, the control of environmental impact related to hydrocarbon exploitation, the reforestation of affected territories, the agroecological production of food by communities, construction in community health, evaluation of the impact of extractive activities on socio-environmental health in aboriginal populations, among others
"In Ecuador it is said that to change reality, you have to change dreams, from that perspective this is a dream, being able to make an agreement with the UNR and doing it to be able to translate this CASA project excites and excites us," said Adolfo Maldonado
For its part, the Médicos del Mundo Association, Argentina, may add members of its volunteers to different projects and actions established by CASA, as well as contribute to their logistics processes.
The CASA Program seeks to build with the community, local health references and the University as a whole, indicators that allow understanding the relationships that determine the health-disease processes of the affected populations.
The project will be located in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the UNR (CEI), articulating both with the Platform for Environmental and Sustainability Studies, as well as with other areas of the UNR committed to the subject and other institutions dedicated to environmental problems.
“Being able to join this project of the environmental clinic, and take over the post in Argentina, is a great contribution for an area with great environmental liabilities, a product of the exploitation of wetlands, water pollution, use of pesticides. The experience that you have in Ecuador will generate a synergy with our University to be able to reach the process of empowering the communities to find definitive solutions to environmental and health problems”, highlighted Dario Maiorna.
The team that is part of the Environmental Clinic will work in the territory through direct links with the communities, generating a participatory socio-environmental cartography of the region where the task will be carried out, to later, through surveys and health controls, generate knowledge that allow the construction of the epidemiological profiles reported by the communities. The CASA Program will be coordinated by Dr. Alejandro Vallini and Professor Damián Verzeñassi.
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