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The President of SEK Education Group, Nieves Segovia, today closed the first Health Observatory, organised at University Camilo José Cela by the digital newspaper El Español and Invertia, with participation of leading representatives from the healthcare sector, among them the Spanish Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, who in his speech assured the editor-in-chief of the news website, Pedro J. that, if all goes well, “Spain would have 3 million doses of the vaccine for the coming month of December”.https://www.elespanol.com/eventos/observatorio-de-la-sanidad/http://ucjc.edu/https://www.ucjc.edu/2020/09/salvador-illa-ministro-de-sanidad-confirma-en-la-ucjc-que-espana-podria-recibir-en-diciembre-3-millones-de-dosis-de-la-vacuna-frente-a-la-covid-19/
Nieves Segovia highlighted in her speech the necessity of committing to STEM skills, but also to the Humanities, for “a new generation of students called to lead social change.” She also highlighted the important work of education in this crucial stage of history. “The consequences of the current pandemic are being written in classrooms around the world. When the health and economic crisis ends, the era of education will come”
The director of Public Health of the World Health Organisation, María Neira, also took part remotely in the closing, highlighting the importance of education and digitization “to share knowledge”, as “there has never been a time like the present”.
Neira explained in her speech that it is time to promote social and economic transformations that “build walls” against the new pandemics that are still to come. She also highlighted how health professionals have become, with the crisis, the “leaders” and examples they should be, while researchers, “who were in the dark, with sometimes precarious scholarships,” have shown that investment in science and education is indispensable. She warned that “we are going to live with the virus for a while” and that “there will be more viruses”, both due to environmental pollution and the density of urban population, as well as the “environmental stress” that they are producing the production models that involve “animal-to-human contacts that shouldn’t happen.”
Borders in the fight against coronavirus
The meeting (whose full agenda can be consulted here) was inaugurated last Monday by Emilio Lora-Tamayo, Rector of University Camilo José Cela, who in his speech said that “we are building a new reality in which the paradigm will be “digital by default” versus “digital by exception” and, in the specific case of education, has led us to a new model of blended education, in which online teaching https://www.ucjc.edu/2020/09/salvador-illa-ministro-de-sanidad-confirma-en-la-ucjc-que-espana-podria-recibir-en-diciembre-3-millones-de-dosis-de-la-vacuna-frente-a-la-covid-19/will play a fundamental role. Our objective is to continue advancing our university’s teaching capacities and in innovative techniques to develop the new educational activities that are required”.
The week-long event included appearances by Juan Abarca, President of the Foundation Institute for the Development and Integration of Health; Humberto Arnés, CEO of Farmaindustria; Margarita Alfonsel, Secretary General of the Spanish Federation of Health Technology Companies (FENIN); Pilar Aparicio, Director of Public Health of the Ministry of Health and Serafín Romero, President of the General Council of Official Associations of Physicians and Juan Pedro Rísquez, Vice President of the General Council of Official Associations of Pharmacists.
During the week, the top Spanish officials from laboratories that are searching for medicines and vaccines against COVID-19 also took part, including the director of the Carlos III Health Institute, Raquel Yotti and the health policy advisers of half a dozen autonomous regions, including Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, as well as the former Minister of Health, Ana Pastor. The Secretary of State for Telecommunications, Carme Artigas, also took part, speaking about the Radar Covid app that should help combat the pandemic.
