Ministry of Health of Argentina

The Ministry of Health in a joint effort with the Social Service Division and the Culture Department of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, carried out an artistic intervention in the MotorTest of the Parque de Mayo. With the aim of preventing people from feeling afraid at the time of being swabbed, also to generate a positive climate and improve the mood of those people who are going to be swabbed, there were organized artistic interventions which added greater empathy to the spaces and also useful information on the sanitary protocol. The distress caused by swab test time was decreased through street entertainment and those in charge of carrying out this activity were 11 urban artists from the circus and mime discipline who used their talent, joy and who had also the responsibility of transmitting a message of prevention in the fight against the virus. Public Health organisations conducted training for them in prevention and information. It should be noted that these days were selected because the MotorTest was swabbing on average about 200 - 250 people, achieving about 1500 weekly swabs.

The Ministry of Public Health, through the Undersecretary of Community Health, Healthy and Non-Violent Environments, and the Directorate of Mental Health, completed the provincial mural competition under the slogan "Inhabiting the Public", which was held at the Secondary School Intercultural Bilingual Social Management No. 1 in the Toba neighborhood of Resistencia. The initiative was led by the artist Sergio Falcón and the community in general, with the aim of generating a work that reflects the imprint of the area with a tribute to its most recognized exponents. The artistic activity, which is linked to a series of territorial works initiated during the beginning of the pandemic, seeks to strengthen citizen participation as a mechanism of expression in different interventions and to add new containment strategies to mental health.