EXPERIENCE OF BAHIA’S CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY IN COPING WITH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Felicidade Mota
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Mello, Arabela Leal e Silva de, Faria, Elaine Cristina, Oliveira, Patrícia Araújo Beck de, Aragão, Mariana Nossa, Chastinet, Akemi Erdens Aoyama
• 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/3289
• topic: Sars-CoV-2; covid-19; pandemia; vigilância laboratorial; coronavírus; Vigilância Laboratorial no contexto da pandemia da Covid-19; Sars-CoV-2; covid-19; pandemia; vigilancia de laboratorio; coronavirus; Sars-CoV-2; covid-19; pandemics; health surveillance; coronavirus

Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the new coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, which caused an outbreak of unusual viral pneumonia in patients in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 and spread across the world, in large proportions, reaching the epidemiological status of a pandemic. Considering this epidemiological scenario that affected the entire Brazilian Federation, the Central Laboratory of Public Health Professor Gonçalo Moniz (Lacen-BA) has played a fundamental role in the diagnosis of Covid-19 and the genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. In this sense, this study aims at describing the strategies implemented by Lacen-BA to expand the diagnostic capacity to meet the demand of the SUS-BA network, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a descriptive-observational study, guided by a logical model based on four dimensions: technological park, analytical methodologies, decentralization of the exam and monitoring of result indicators. The management initiatives enabled the expansion of the installed and operational capacity by modernizing the physical structure, renewing the technological park, reorganizing workflows and processes, providing new analytical technologies, structuring the dashboard to monitor indicators and support the decision-making process. The Lacen-BA, as coordinator of the State Public Health Laboratory Network and support system of the Health Care Network (RAS), constitutes essential polycentric structures for the decentralized and regionalized diagnosis of Covid-19, which can contribute to the systemic integration of actions and services in the context of regionalization of health to guarantee the universality of access and comprehensive care to SUS users.