The Mais Médicos Program and the indigenous communities of Northern Bahia: experience report

• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, Manoel Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Memon, Mumtaz Ali, Silva, Iara Zuleica Nobre e, Armstrong, Anderson da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3576
• topic: Programa Mais Médicos; Saúde de populações indígenas; Distritos sanitários especiais indígenas; Política Nacional de Saúde dos Povos Indígenas; Programa Más Médicos; Salud de los pueblos indígenas; Distritos sanitarios especiales indígenas; Política Nacional de Salud de los Pueblos Indígenas; More Doctors Program; Health of indigenous populations; Special indigenous health districts; National Health Policy for Indigenous Peoples

Actions for building a health service delivery model geared towards the indigenous population became more prominent only in 2002, upon creation of the National Health Policy for Indigenous Peoples. As a result, professionals from the Mais Médicos Project were included in the Special Indigenous Health Districts. Hence, this study describes the experience of professionals from the More Doctor for Brazil project within indigenous communities in northern Bahia, at the Paulo Afonso center. Overall, these communities face low socioeconomic conditions and the indigenous peoples of the Sertão are largely affected by urbanization processes. During the program, the professionals noted that indigenous communities bear the psychological effects of land struggles, the history of violent repression and the persistent prejudiced culture espoused by non-indigenous. Moreover, the commitment and dedication of Mais Médicos physicians, as well as their interest in providing care for the traditional indigenous communities in their area of activity, is evident. Importantly, however, even many years after the implementation of the Mais Médicos Project, vacancies geared towards indigenous health are difficult to fill out and the last public notices were unable to find a doctor to fill the open vacancy for the Paulo Afonso center.