The strategies for early detection and blocking the transmission of COVID-19 in the workers of the Department of Health of the State of Bahia

• Autor(a) principal: Cruz, Ana Flávia Barros
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Menezes, Angélica Araújo de, Almeida, Bruno Guimarães de, Moura, Luciano de Paula, Frank, Monica Hupsel
• 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/3488
• topic: Pandemia; Novo coronavírus (2019-nCoV); Gestão do trabalho; Saúde do trabalhador; detecção precoce e bloqueio da transmissão da COVID-19 nos trabalhadores; Pandemia; Nuevo coronavirus (2019-nCoV); Gestión del trabajo; Salud ocupacional; detección temprana y bloqueo de la transmisión de COVID-19 en trabajadores; Pandemic; New coronavirus (2019-nCoV); Work management; Occupational health; early detection and blocking of COVID-19 transmission in workers

The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the need for better planning and management of the workforce in the SUS, including strategies for humanizing work and health care for workers, with the establishment of measures to monitor symptomatic people and positive case contacts, such as early detection, isolation and monitoring of the evolution of cases. This is a descriptive study with quantitative elements that seeks to describe the implementation of 76 testing centers for the diagnosis of COVID-19 among health workers at the Health Department of the State of Bahia, Brazil, whose matrix is based in the capital, and the others in each of the units of the own network under direct and indirect management. In these centers, until February 2021, a total of 69,134 diagnostic tests of COVID-19 were performed relative to 43,575 health workers that work in the state network, with a global incidence of 21.9 cases of the disease. Moreover, a gap of diagnostic support was provided to 12,859 workers from other areas of the state public service considered essential. Besides the regular tests on suspicious cases or direct positive case contacts, two test cycles were performed, one using the immunochromatographic method and the other using the RT-PCR method. The creation of these services shows the efforts of the government of the state of Bahia to act in blocking the infection of COVID-19 and in the concern with the health and safety of its workers and users.