Nova pandemia, velhas formas de prevenção: fabricação e doação de produtos saneantes domissanitários para famílias em situação de vulnerabilidade social

The usage of household sanitizing products is an effective way to prevent disease-causing agents dissemination, such as the coronavirus responsible for the so called COVID-19 pandemic. Generally, pandemics can cause health problems to the population as a whole but are particularly harmful to members in social vulnerability groups. In this context, a group formed by professors and grad students from UTFPR - Campo Mourao, have been manufacturing and donating household sanitizing products to social vulnerability group families from Campo Mourao, Quarto Centenario, Rancho Alegre d’Oeste and Roncador counties. Among the manufactured and donated sanitizing products, one can highlight in terms of quantity, bar and liquid soaps produced from used cooking oil, donated by residents of the mentioned counties. So far, about 600 bar soap kits and 2000 liters of liquid soap have been donated, as well as pandemic information leaflets.