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Bahiana brings together experts to discuss organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Programming is a partnership with SESAB.
16/09/2016
"Organ and tissue donation and transplantation: a meeting between specialties" was the theme addressed at the meeting held on September 9 at the Academic Unit Cabula da Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública.
The event was a partnership between the Bahia State Health Department (SESAB) and the Bahiana, having as coordinators Fabrízio da Silva Góes, member of the SESAB Transplants coordination and professor of the Psychology course at Bahiana Maria Constança Velloso Staff.
The program brought together students from various courses at the Bahiana, professors and specialists in the health area and featured lectures and roundtables on the national system and state policy on transplants in Bahia, stages of the donation and transplant process, diagnosis of brain death, family interview for organ and tissue donation, transplants of corneas, liver and kidney.
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The event had as speakers the surgeon Dr. Eraldo Salustiano de Moura, the coordinator of the transplant sector at SESAB, Ana Christina Lordelo de Salles Mascarenhas, the nurse at the State Transplant Center America Carolina Brandão de Melo Sodré, the doctor at the Hospital da Bahia Artur Pedreira de Andrade Souza, professor Maria Constança Velloso Cajado and ophthalmologist Mila Dias Sampaio.
According to the surgeon Dr. Eraldo Salustiano de Moura, who presented the themes "History and Current Panorama of Transplants in Brazil" and "Liver and Kidney Transplant", organ transplantation is a process that depends on the society where the power is inserted public, the population and health professionals. The government is responsible for organizing the entire process of hospital networks, monitoring the technical training of professionals and the infrastructure of transplants. "When we bring together health professionals, public authorities and society, acting in a responsible and committed manner, we begin to change the health scenario, thus favoring more people, because the transplant belongs to society and, when there is donation and organ transplantation, everyone benefits”.
The doctor highlights the commitment of the Bahiana in hosting events of social relevance and reiterates that in the state of Bahia there is a great lack of knowledge among health professionals in relation to patients who can be cured through an organ transplant. "THE Bahiana has been reaffirming its actions by engaging studies on transplants throughout the graduation of the medical course and also in other courses, contributing to health and education”.
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Professor Maria Constança Velloso Cajado, who is also part of the coordination of transplants at SESAB, explains that the meeting is part of the secretariat's planning of educational activities. "This meeting has already existed in several faculties and the idea of bringing the event to the Bahiana it was excellent, as the School is an institution focused on health and transplantation is a current issue that deserves to be debated and demystified, even to be worked transversally in the academic curriculum”.
Alyne de Souza Melo, 8th semester student of the Psychology course at Bahiana reports that the discussion of the topic was relevant, as, throughout the course, students do not have the opportunity to review specific points linked to the health area. "During the activity, we can have access to expert opinions from other areas, being a multi-professional knowledge and we realize, increasingly, the need to deepen in other themes, encompassing medicine and nursing, for example, throughout the graduation course so that we can have a better understanding of our training as psychologists”.
Samara Gonçalves, 6th semester student of the Psychology course at Bahiana points out the importance of bringing new approaches in the health area to graduation. “It is very important, and having this contact with students from other courses is essential to establish this intercourse integration. With this activity, I could see the role of the psychologist in this issue, identifying our sensitivity and the way in which we, professionals, should position ourselves in front of the family and patients during care."
At the end of the program, the roundtables “Transplants: expectations and feelings of patients” were held, with the participation of transplant patients and “Religiosity: death, life and organ donation” with religious representatives.
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