Vizzotti launched the First Safe Trip program in Tucumán

The Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, headed today in San Miguel de Tucumán together with her provincial counterpart, Luis Medina Ruiz, the launch of the First Safe Trip program, a joint effort between the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV) and the national health portfolio within the framework of Law 27,611 on Comprehensive Health Care and Attention during Pregnancy and Early Childhood, known as Law 1000 days.

This unprecedented measure of child road safety consists of the loan of a Child Restraint System (SRI) or child seat to low-income families with newborn babies so that they can carry out a transfer safely when they leave the obstetric centers for the first time. time. The child seats must be returned by the mothers and fathers after the minor’s first medical check-up so that other families can continue with the circuit.

“We work to generate concrete actions to promote access to these prevention measures,” Vizzotti said, while stressing the importance of “this device so that teams can be trained in maternity hospitals, so that these teams can train families and so that that baby, that baby, has her first safe trip with this child restraint system”.

The minister thus explained that “Tucumán is the first province to implement it, and we will continue to advance in the provinces that are adhering to the 1000-day Plan and working with concrete strategies to provide chairs during the first weeks of life so that girls and boys can travel safely.”

In the same sense, the executive director of the ANSV, Pablo Martínez Carignano, expressed: “We are taking a very important step for children’s road safety in the country, because from now on, all those families who need it will have a child seat so that the first trip from the hospital to their homes is safe. This measure is pioneering in our country, and as in every initiative we carry out, we put the ANSV at the service of all Argentines to continue contributing to the construction of a new road culture”.

In his turn, the head of the provincial health portfolio, Luis Medina Ruiz, thanked the minister for her presence and remarked that “everything that is done to prevent road accidents, and especially speaking of children, is welcome”, at the same time who indicated that this initiative is a new starting point to provide “greater security and more life to our population.”

The launch, which was also part of the Secretary for Access to Health, Sandra Tirado, took place at the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes Institute of Maternity and Gynecology and at the Hospital de Clínicas Dr. Nicolás Avellaneda, where 75 and 25 child seats, respectively. The initiative inaugurated today will be replicated in the main maternity hospitals in the country.

Both institutions -like all where the initiative is carried out- have a medical reference in charge of offering families the program, promoting the safe transfer of children from birth, and an administrative reference, who will be responsible for the delivery and reception of the chairs. In addition, the health personnel and all the people involved will receive training on child road safety.

First safe trip is part of the 1000 days Plan, which aims to provide comprehensive health care and attention during pregnancy and early childhood, with the commitment and joint work between the Nation, provinces and municipalities.

Previously, Vizzotti led, together with Governor Jaldo, the official launch of the Provincial Road Accident Prevention Program at the Mercedes Sosa theater.

After thanking the support of the national government, Governor Jaldo said: “We are very proud that Tucumán has been chosen as the first province to launch this program,” and added that “those of us who are here have a great responsibility to take care of the most important thing that the human being has: health and life”.

In that sense, he pointed out that the presence of the ministers of the province during the launch is “a sign of the importance that Tucumán gives to this issue.”

For her part, the minister explained that “with the National Road Safety Agency, the Nation and the Province we work on accident prevention and road safety.” In that sense, she indicated that road accidents “are a problem for public health” and stressed that the national government “has been carrying out work from the beginning of the management, which is bearing fruit.”

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