Contributions of the Mais Médicos program in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Bahia

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Janaina Peralta de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Garcia, Emerson Gomes, Nascimento, Amanda dos Santos, Brito, Rafael Sousa de, Greszgorn Junior, Ivan Leite, Bonfim, Joseane Mota
• 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/3393
• topic: Infecções por coronavírus; Consórcios de saúde; Educação a distância; Infecciones por coronavirus; Consorcios de salud; Educación a distancia; Coronavirus infections; Health consortia; Education distance

The Mais Médicos Program (MMP) is part of the pact to improve service to users of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). It aims to serve the regions of greatest social vulnerability in Brazil and reduce the absence of health professionals in the territory. With the MMP, the state of Bahia increased the number of physicians per inhabitants, benefiting around 5.6 million people. The emergence of Covid-19 imposed the adoption of sanitary measures and strategic actions that motivated changes in the flows and structural readjustment of the Family Health Teams. Seeking these professionals, the Training Course Clinical Management of Covid-19 for Doctors of the PMM was developed in Distance Education (Distance Education). This article seeks to report the process of elaboration and implementation if the course. For such purpose, the experience of running the course is described. The products of the web meetings of longitudinal supervisions, the content of the videos and the recommendation manual to face Covid-19 were analyzed. The course presents Covid-19 service protocols in Primary Care (PC). It took place in 3 modules with video classes produced by doctors. In total, 365 doctors from the MMP and the supporters of PC in the state were trained and expanded to the 417 municipalities of the state of Bahia by the PC coordinators. The contributions of the MMP in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in the state of Bahia are being relevant in the perspective of professional qualification and improvement of primary care services in serving the population.