Tag: Saúde da Família
Health Clinics promote breastfeeding awareness with event for moms and babies
15/August/2018Health and social assistance are universal rights. Viva Rio believes in a wider concept of healthcare and sees the management of public facilities as a way to ensure citizenship for all. With this purpose, Viva Rio got a certificate to operate as an unprofitable Social Health Organization, co-managing over 80 health units in partnership with […]
Blood donation campaign saved 2,805 lives in 2017
23/February/2018Did you know that a single blood donation can save up to three lives? Viva Rio works to raise awareness about the importance of donating blood since 1998, when it signed a partnership with Rio de Janeiro’s blood bank Hemorio. In 2010 the initiative was strengthened and gained support from the Municipal Health Secretariat, community […]
SOCIAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION
14/June/2017In 2009 Viva Rio celebrated its 16th year of activities, and we felt that we were ready to do more. Motivated by a desire for social justice and inclusion, we saw the health sector as an opportunity to contribute to a quality public service in communities impacted by poverty and violence. We therefore started bidding […]