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Practical training activities then focused to
practical training on care and maintenance of
spraying equipment, use of personal protection
equipment, and techniques for effective delivery of
insecticide.
During the
last two days, activities moved to the field, to "Jesús
Maria" and "San Gregorio" communities. There, participants received practical
training on the use of GPS receivers, informed consent
procedures, adequate information gathering and data
management in the field.
Participants were divided into working groups and assigned a
number of houses to be examined within the community. Team
members, under the supervision of biologist from TDI and
CIEI took turns conducting the different activities needed for
adequate vectorial control. These included initial approach
to the head of the household and informed consent,
intradomiciliary and peridomiciliary triatomine searches,
preparation of the house and application of
insecticide, and all other practical aspects of vector
control.
Finally, participants received a
final graded evaluation. Only those that reach 75% of the
grade received a certificate signed by the course organizers
and validated by the Ministry of Health.
"We feel very good about this
training, we learned a lot of new information and
how to do our work better", said Freddy Veliz,
from the Chagas Control program in Manabí
province.
So, it is
with renewed energy, knowledge and enthusiastically yelling
"Con nuestra labor, sin Chagas el Ecuador!",
that the field workers and supervisors of the National
Control program set out to continue their fight against
Chagas disease in Ecuador. |
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Dr. Sucre Dávila, National Director of
the Malaria Control Program, addresses the participants in
the closing ceremony
Field
workers get instructions from Anita
Villacis prior to the initiation of
the practical training. |
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Instructors:
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Manuel F. LLuberas (HD
Hudson Manufacturing Co.),
- Mario
J. Grijalva, Jeff Ueland, Stephanie White, Eric Carlsen,
Meredith Maxley (TDI)
- Anita
Villacis, Sofía Ocaña, Cesar Yumiseva, Esteban Baus
(CIEI).
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