Unicamp signed an agreement this Wednesday morning (19) with Fundação Casa and the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo (MPESP) for the development of health actions with adolescents who are undergoing socio-educational measures of hospitalization or temporary hospitalization at the Foundation. Home. Currently, the institution, which is linked to the State Secretariat for Justice and Citizenship Defense, maintains five units in Campinas, which house 234 young people. The document was signed in the University Council (Consu) room.
The objective of the agreement, according to the Secretary of State for Justice and the Defense of Citizenship, Marcio Fernando Elias Rosa, is to expand assistance to Fundação Casa inmates, who are served by the public health network. “We will start work in January in one of the units and then gradually extend the program to the others”, he explained. Rosa highlighted the importance of the partnership with Unicamp, which he classified as a “reference center”. “Whenever we need it, we turn to the University, which never denies us support. We have another important collaboration in the area of migration and refuge, something that has helped us deal with this quite complex phenomenon,” he added.
Initially, Unicamp will provide assistance to Fundação Casa interns, mainly in the General Clinic area. Students from Unicamp's Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) will provide care in the units, always under the supervision of a professor. According to rector Marcelo Knobel, this type of agreement is one of the ways in which the University returns to society part of the public resources invested in the institution.
Knobel also noted that Unicamp has adopted several measures in the context of defending human rights, such as the creation of the Chair of Refugees, the Executive Directorate for Human Rights and the secretariats for Diversity, Sexual Violence against Women and Accessibility. “Whenever possible, we promote actions that bring us closer and can meet society’s desires”, she pointed out.
Both the rector of Unicamp and the secretary of Justice and Citizenship Defense emphasized that the agreement signed this Wednesday will bring gains for Fundação Casa, for teenagers and for the University. The director of FCM, professor Luiz Carlos Zeferino, said that students' contact with the reality experienced by young interns should contribute to the training of future doctors, particularly with regard to the issue of humanization in care.
The public prosecutor and general coordinator of the Civil Support and Collective Protection Center, Thiago Cintra Zarif, who represented the Attorney General of the State of São Paulo, Gianpaolo Poggio, also participated in the panel of authorities set up to sign the agreement. Smanio; and the Child Justice prosecutor, Elisa de Divitiis Camuzzo.
