León, Gto., March 10, 2017.- Within the commemoration of the "International Kidney's Day" and to create awareness on the impact of the kidney damages in society, besides presenting strategies and life styles that allow their prevention, the first Nursing Journeys were held at Campus Leon of the University of Guanajuato (UG), with the topic "Obesity and kidney damage".
There was the participation of professors-researchers of the University of Guanajuato, in addition of the representatives of the Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Hospital General Regional de León, Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad del Bajío, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social & Medical Recovery.
For two days, the risk factors were analyzed; topics on nursing and kidney health at different levels of attention were addressed; patients and family received psychosocial support; also, the importance of renal transplant in Mexico, patient's life quality, nourishment and obesity, among others.
In an interview, Edgar Eduardo Hernández, intern of the degree in Nursing and Midwifery, mentioned the importance of addressing obesity because it is a public health problem worldwide. "Getting close to these topics allows us to strengthen our professional formation and provides us with tools to create preventive, healing and assisting measures", he mentioned.
Dr. Elizabeth Cruz Rodríguez, member of the event's organizing committee highlighted the effort made at the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at Leon to create a program with the intervention of experts which provides different perspectives.
In addition of letting know who attended the current topics with a multidisciplinary feature that contribute to the professional formation of health, which will allow them to update their knowledge and make practices on prevention, early detection of illnesses and treatment.
At the opening act were present: Dr. Carlos Hidalgo Valadez, Rector of Campus Leon; M. Cipriana Caudillo Cisneros, Academic Secretary of the Division of Health Sciences; M. Esther Ureño Luna, Director of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery in Leon.
