Joint action between Ministry of Health and 45 university hospitals seeks to reduce queues with more than 7,900 care provided in a single day
The federal government announced on Wednesday (2) the holding of a large joint effort of medical care, which will take place next Saturday, July 5, throughout Brazil. The action, entitled “Day and”, involves forty -five federal university students linked to the Brazilian Hospital Services Company (Ebserh) and is part of the “Now Specialists” program, launched to reduce the queues of the Unified Health System ().
According to the Ministry of Health, it is expected that, only this Saturday, more than a thousand surgeries, a thousand and about five thousand and six hundred exams, totaling more than seven thousand and nine hundred specialized care in a single day.
“It will be the biggest and most diverse joint effort in SUS history,” said the Minister of Health, .
Two other editions of the task force are scheduled for September and December, within the same coordinated effort.
Efficiency and humanization in service. The project also has the active participation of the Ministry of Education, responsible for the management of university hospitals.
According to Minister Camilo Santana, the goal is to optimize the capacity of university public hospitals, while offered more humanized care to the population. “It is a collective effort to ensure patient care, reduce lines and decrease waiting time for specialized care,” said Santana.
Unpublished Monitoring of the SUS Queing
In the wake of the initiative, the government also announced the creation of a national SUS queue monitoring panel, which will allow real -time tracking of waiting times for consultations, exams and surgeries. The tool, unprecedented in the Brazilian public health system, promises greater transparency and agility, and will be fundamental for states and municipalities to receive federal support in organizing their repressed demand. “We want to bring SUS closer to the experience that people have with health plans, regarding the agility and predictability of care,” said Padilha.
Service with support from the private network
The program now has experts also provides for the complementary hiring of private clinics, hospitals and outpatient clinics, through continuous accreditation, to support specialized care that cannot be fully absorbed through the public network.
The expectation of the government is that the sum of actions such as “Day and”, the new monitoring panel and partnerships with the private sector helps significantly reduce the SUS queue over the coming months. The task force on Saturday marks another step in the federal strategy of restructuring specialized health care, focusing on efficiency, decentralization and care for the citizen.
