BOGALUSA - Close to 200 children and adults took part in the first-ever LSU Bogalusa Medical Center Kid's Health and Safety Carnival at the Avenue B YMCA Friday.
Children played games and had their faces painted while vendors set up booths in various rooms at the YMCA. Health care students and professionals worked various stations, serving water popcorn and other dressed up as clowns.
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"You want to instill nutrition," said Veronica Thomas Cook, who was working the Nielsen's Pharmacy booth adorned with two big buckets of apples and fruit juice. She also had a basket of syringes on display in order to teach parents the correct method of issuing dosage.
"This was our focus on kids before they got back into school," said Beverly Sheridan, who heads up LSU-BMC's Education Department. The department in conjunction with the YMCA organized the fair.
"This one was our first," Sheridan said, adding they plan to do hold another children's health fair in the future. A health fair for seniors is being planned for September.
Twenty-two vendors and 42 nursing students from Louisiana Technical College-Sullivan Campus participated in the fair.
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