The Health area is in charge of the healthy functioning of the physical and psychological area of all the strata of the University, through a set of preventive medical care services, which aim to achieve a high degree of individual and collective well-being and satisfaction in order to contribute to the integral development of the entire university community.
Our Mission
The health center provides low complexity services in the promotion phases, prevention, treatment and recovery of health by offering integral care humanized. We create an environment of respect and simplicity by encouraging students, faculty and administrators to take responsibility for their health and well-being.
Our Vision
The Health area will be recognized regionally as a university health center with a wide range of services in the next four years. We are reinforcing our efforts to train our human talent in the continuous improvement of processes to reduce risks, in addition to incorporating new technologies that allow the user to enjoy safe, timely and efficient care.
Welcome to the University of La Guajira Health Center! Here, our priority is to provide comprehensive and safe medical care to the entire university community. From promotion and prevention to immediate assistance in emergency situations, we are committed to your well-being every step of the way.
First aid, promotion and prevention
Description of the project:
First aid care is defined as the care given to people before taking them to a medical center. Within our campus, the university first responders are in charge of assisting our staff (administrative, teachers, graduates and students), they provide first aid by responding to emergency calls made by the community: fainting or fainting, convulsion. They also provide other services such as: wound healing, blood pressure measurement, injections, medication delivery, immobilization in open and closed fractures, attention in sports activities, among other pathologies.
General Medicine
Description of the project:
This service consists of providing comprehensive care to the different departments (administrative, teachers, graduates and students), in pathologies such as fainting, open wounds, simple surgeries, sutures, among other pathologies that may occur within our campus. This service is provided in the three days morning, afternoon and evening with extended hours from Monday to Friday and on Saturdays in the morning, as well as virtual care is provided through calls or video calls to those who for some reason can not attend the health center or are from the provincial headquarters and wish to be attended by doctors from the main office.
Dentistry
Description of the project:
We provide comprehensive oral health care in procedures such as: Awareness of personalized oral hygiene, performing prophylaxis, detartration, fillings with resin, amalgam and simple tooth extractions. The promotion and prevention is done through the program "Uniguajira without cavities" where our professionals carry out awareness and sensitization days, in addition to delivering oral hygiene kits, to reduce the risk of oral pathologies.
Nutrition
Description of the project:
Through this service, intervention strategies are developed to identify risk factors derived from obesity such as hypertension, diabetes, reduction and follow-up of weight and measurements, counseling on healthy lifestyle habits, weight taking, body measurements, diet, treatment follow-up, among others. This program is offered to all the university's departments at the health center at established times for the convenience of our departments.
Physiotherapy
Description of the project:
Executes and provides therapeutic intervention to create or reinforce healthy behaviors and lifestyles, modifying those that are not. This service is characterized by seeking the proper development of the functions that produce the body systems, where its good or bad performance affects the kinetics or human body movement.
Chiropractic
Description of the project:
It is responsible for analyzing, detecting and correcting vertebral subluxations that occur daily in people of any age. Uniguajira, through the University Social Welfare and the health area, offers external artificial procedures to keep healthy, in order to help the body to be able to heal and function normally, without using drugs and avoiding in many cases surgical procedures.
Cosmiatry
Description of the project:
Our doctors are in charge of identifying the members of our community with obesity and overweight problems. Among our services are auriculotherapy for anxiety control, reducing massages in the abdominal area and many more tools that help and contribute to the community to have a better health.
Cooperation agreements
Description of the project:
At the University of La Guajira, face-to-face activities are being carried out through agreements between the institution and private or public entities such as:
Agreements
Support networks
Description of the project:
At the University of La Guajira, face-to-face activities are being carried out through agreements between the institution and private or public entities such as:
- Vaccination campaigns (Departmental and District Health Secretariat and Ips).
- Cytology, family planning, sexual and reproductive health day in alliance with Profamilia, Abbott Laboratories, Mulier Foundation, and International Organization for Migration (IOM).
- Blood donation in alliance with Hemocenter of Valledupar.
- Cancer promotion and prevention with the League for the fight against cancer.
- HIV testing and condom distribution through AHF Colombia.
- Health Brigades for Wayuu Communities with the Departmental and District Health Secretariat and Ips.
Programs
Description of the project:
Within the facilities of the University of La Guajira, programs are being developed in order to reach out to our different strata and their needs:
En mi proyecto de vida, yo soy lo más importante
Within the facilities of the University of La Guajira, a descriptive study has been carried out. These interventions have made it possible to identify the factors that lead to the high incidence of premature pregnancies in the young people of Uniguajira and to provide them with medical and psychosocial intervention and academic accompaniment, in order to continue with their academic project and obtain a successful graduation.
Health sexual y reproductiva
This is one of the activities that are developed for the university community, making known through articulation with other entities, the previous knowledge about sexuality, the most frequent doubts and concerns that young university students have about risk behaviors and the preventions that should be taken about the sexual act, prevention of diseases and sexually transmitted infections, condoms, protection devices and the decisions that should be taken into account to maintain their academic life project. Through various strategies such as workshops, awareness and sensitization days with topics related to sexuality, so that they lead a healthy and responsible sexual life.
Chequea tus senos, porque prevenir está en tus manos
Through a descriptive study for the prevention and detection of breast cancer, Uniguajira is developing through this program to identify the factors that cause this pathology in those who have suffered it: appearance of a lump, secretion other than breast milk, inflammation of the breast, irritation or dimpling of the skin, abnormalities in the nipple (such as pain, redness, peeling or sagging).
