Stories against the misuse of antibiotics

    The November 21, in the Multiple Use Room of the Universidad del Azuay, was the launch of the book 'Contemos nuestros Bac-historias', an initiative of the React Latin America network.

The network is made up of academic and research centers, health agencies and social movements in the region that, through cooperation and interdisciplinary work, promote actions to contain the scourge of antibiotic-resistant infections.


This year, React Latin America made a call to the public, in general, and to university students, in particular, with the theme 'Contemos nuestros Bac-historias', which sought out current issues such as the abuse of antibiotics and the value of ancestral medicine. they will find the form of stories through stories, essays and audiovisual material.


A committee chose the two best stories that were written by the student Sebastián Carrasco, of the School of Social Communication, and Maryury Mendoza, student of the School of Tourism, both of the UDA.


The two winners traveled to Rosario, Argentina, to present their work, since this campaign was an essential part of the first intercontinental meeting 'Mother Earth, a single health', which took place in that city from 12 to 16 in June of 2017 .
During the act of launching the book, which also brings together other of the stories selected by the jury, Maryury Mendoza read to the public his story, entitled 'The Curandera'.


"Today we have the honor of presenting one of the products that was structured in the programming for the 2017 year. I want to thank React for that opportunity and congratulate the fellow researchers and professors of the University who enthusiastically participated and helped this to be very successful, "said Jacinto Guillén, Academic Vice Chancellor of the UDA.


Guillén also praised "the students who participated with great motivation to get to this product that today we have the pleasure of presenting."
"This work fulfills an essential objective, to rediscover the heart of science. The search for a greater truth, which, starting from an awareness and starting from perceptions and from that which captures the heart, is capable of transforming it later in qualitative analysis, thoughts and also in ideas and materialize in generations of scientific evidence " , concluded Arturo Quizhpe, coordinator of React.