Reportagem “Lugar de acolhimento: sala de cuidados Antonio Piranema (SCAP), projeto de extensão da UFAL como complemento à medicina tradicional”

Abstract

The present report is the result of the reportage work that seek to address the actions/benefits of the Antonio Piranema Care Room extension project (SCAP), carried out within the scope of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Alagoas (Famed/UFAL). Although there are already journalistic materials about the space and its actions, they are usually not very comprehensive or segmented. Therefore, our journalistic product seeks to deepen the work developed at SCAP, dealing with multiples elements about the project. In previous research, only articles that addressed one aspect or another of the Care Room was produced, in another words, an article about the actions or numbers and not a wider material. Therefore, an intense research work, both in loco and in bibliographies and the files of the project, gave rise to this journalistic material, a dense report of information, but that tries to communicate in a clear and solid way both general information about the project, as well the initial motivations, academic unit to which it is connected and the like, as well as its contribution to Alagoas society, thus responding to the general premise of university extension, which is to be or to make the link between the knowledge produced by the academy and society in the which she is obliged to attend. The material also mentions integrative practices, or holistic therapies, which, despite being widespread for years, are still poorly known and/or explored. Also known as "alternative medicine", this type of practice has already been proven in the medical literature and currently, like the "sister" is already part of the reality of health care, both of which are included both in the scope of public health (SUS), as well as private, clinics and the like. The purpose, with this, is for people to know a little more about the Antonio Piranema Care Room, as a public and free space, accessible to all in a way, in addition to this other alternative of health care, from a common element to us all, which are the reports of people who have had and have experience with day-to-day practices, whether therapists and/or patients. Future materials, whether journalistic or research, are also being taken into account, since it is not just telling a story through the human element, but also putting technical information to serve as reference material, information gathering and the like, but having the human element as a mediator.