Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing UGM, Faculty of Dentistry and Faculty of Pharmacy UGM hold Summer Course 2019, covering the topic on “Interprofessional Health Care: Emergency and Trauma Care.”
Vice-Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, Prof. dr. Gandes Retno Rahayu, M.Med.Ed., Ph.D., said the Summer Course was joined by 59 participants; 27 Indonesian students and 31 international students. International participants came from International Medical University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ramathibodi School of Nursing, Mahidol University, Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, University of Medicine Pham Ngoc Thach, Manila Central University, Eberhard Karls University, dan Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Prof. Gandes said this Summer Course involved three faculties to support innovation in integrating cross-disciplinary programs of excellence at UGM to advocate as well as implementing integrated health services for emergency and trauma cases.
“We raise this theme because emergencies are life threatening in nature that needs immediate action. Every year over 5 million people are killed in emergency cases, such as traffic accidents, violence, injury, etc,” she said in Ngablak district public health center in Magelang, Monday (4/11).
According to Gandes, emergencies and trauma cover a broad spectrum, such as poisoning cases due to pesticides.
“Hence, the course participants are asked to analyze the impact of pesticide exposures. They came to the Ngablak district to know firsthand the condition of the local people who are mostly farmers who often use pesticides,” she said.
During the Summer Course which ran from 28 – 30 October, the participants were given lectures related to emergency and trauma from various perspectives.
Dr. dr. Ismail Setyopranoto, SpS(K), the committee of Summer Course 2019, said it was important to explain the hazards of pesticides to the community in order to keep pesticide exposures to the minimum. The community should understand in order to avoid minimal exposure to pesticides.
To minimize exposure to pesticides, he said, the first thing to do was through counseling, especially for farmers in Ngablak. This counseling was carried out in 2016 in the villages with the highest exposure to pesticides. The second counseling was held in the same year, covering topics on ways to avoid exposure to pesticides, as well as providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to them.
District chief, Budi Daryanto, S.STP., M.Si, said as high as 80 percent of people in Ngablak were farmers who use high amounts of pesticides. It has become a habit to use pesticides among farmers without thinking about the side-effects. Even so, some farmers have already cultivated organic farming.
“If we were not trained by UGM, we would never know the danger of pesticides,” he said.
Head of Ngablak public health center, drg. Niken Sulistyo Handayani, said cases of pesticide exposures reached up to 38 percent. “Usually, patients would come here due to skin problems because they rarely wear protective devices,” she said.
Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/18673-fkkmk-ugm-selenggarakan-summer-course-2019
