Brava: Health Department intends to continue the activities carried out in 2019 and “with innovations”

Brava's Health delegate, Júlio Barros, told Inforpress that the police station will continue some activities started in 2019, but "with innovations", and introduce others to improve the system.

Júlio Barros announced that they have been developing various activities for the promotion of health and disease prevention, such as the registration of chronic patients, home visits and follow-up, holding health fairs and lectures, as well as cancer screenings.

This year, he added that his team will continue these activities, adding that they hope to make some “leaps” of advances, through the acquisition of some equipment.

As for the service to the population, he highlighted that there are two doctors and seven nurses distributed by the police station and the health posts, where, once a week, doctors are consulted at the health posts of Furna and Nossa Senhora do Monte, and monthly at the Basic Health Unit Cachaço and Lomba Tantum.

He stressed that they are going to work towards trying to remodel the structure where the police station operates, but he also says he is waiting for some other equipment that will allow them to better diagnose patients, in addition to praising the importance of the operation of the radiology service that began operating in 2019.

In fact, last November, on the first medical mission of the Health CV project to the island, in an interview with Inforpress, the executive director of the project, Ernestina Moreira, said that she was “sensitized” with the needs she faced both in the lack of specialists and lack of materials.

And from the United States of America, the police station is already reaping the benefits of these partnerships, having received, according to the delegate, various hospital equipment, such as sheets, beds, wheeled carts, washing machines and ECG equipment, among others.

The team is hopeful that in the first quarter of 2020 it will receive equipment to improve the diagnostic capacity in specialties such as Stomatology, Pediatrics, Nutrition, Maternal and Child Health and Reproductive Health.

The list also includes an ambulance to ensure “more and better” safety in the process of transferring patients to the neighboring island, since it has to be done through the maritime connection and the transport destined for the route “does not have the minimum conditions” that ensure comfort and safety for patients, especially those in critical condition.

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