Training marks partnership between Bahiana and Sanitary District of Brotas

Medical students, teachers, community agents from the Sanitary District of Brotas and health professionals gathered on the morning of last Thursday, February 25, at the Academic Unit Brotas during the Microcephaly and Zika Training.

The initiative is part of the Teaching-Care Integration Program of the Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública and the Sanitary District of Brotas. The program included lectures by professors from the Bahiana Dr. Juarez Pereira Dias, David Nunes and Junaura Souza Rocha and Dr. Bruno Meireles, neuro-ophthalmologist at Hospital Humberto Castro Lima.

"Since last year we have been very close to the Sanitary District of Brotas and this integration program foresees four axes. One of the actions is training for professionals in the Sanitary District of Brotas. Today was the first action in this direction and the idea is to carry out periodic training for doctors, nurses and other health professionals”, announced the coordinator of the Medicine course at Bahiana, Prof. Dr. Eliana de Paula.

According to her, the program is already underway with the realization of internships with students of the 11th semester of the Medicine course in primary care in the neighborhood. “We are also going to develop, through telemedicine, remote diagnosis, through the Telemedicine and Telehealth Center of the Bahiana (NUTESB), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Marta Menezes. The last axis of work is the second opinion. Clients who are being assisted in primary care and who, for an adverse reason, the therapy is not achieving the expected result or who are having difficulty in diagnosis, may come, referred by our students together with primary care physicians, to the ADAB for our specialists to make a diagnosis and a referral. Our idea is to extend this program to the districts of Cabula/Beiru and Pau da Lima as well."

According to Uelma Fonseca, nurse and district technician responsible for Permanent Education in the Sanitary District of Brotas, the choice of the training theme reflects a current need of professionals allocated to the health unit in the neighborhood. "In the Sanitary District of Brotas we have occupational therapists, nurses, both in the care part and in the management. So the objective of this partnership is also to train our professionals. We even requested this topic: prenatal and pediatric care in cases of microcephaly, as it is a reality that we are discussing at the moment".

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