Manaus - The Program for Integral Attention to the Poor (Paid), the State Department of Health (Susam), who works at the Polyclinic Codajás, south, granted equipment 55,800 from January to December last year. The number represents an increase of 12% over the same period in 2009, when 49,700 were delivered products.These data are part of the balance of the program that sets the benchmark for comprehensive care to people with special needs in the Amazon. In all, 1,511 users have benefited in one of four program modules (audio, ostomy, eye and orthopedic). Among the instruments granted, 98.7% were delivered to 514 users module ostomy, totaling 55,113 for equipment and urinary and bowel ostomy products also shields the skin.
The apparatus 178 also gave Paid Individual Sound Amplification (HA) for 143 patients in the auditory module. In the eye module, were granted 502 orthoses (goggles) for users with visual impairment and four telelupas to 506 people served by the program. Another 31 users received equipment to assist the vision, in partnership with the Human Development Council (HRC).
And in module orthopedic prostheses 21, ten and six orthopedic bracing materials transportation, totaling 37 facilities, to serve 33 users. Beyond this group, some 284 people have benefited from grants made with the support of the HRC team. According to records from the Data Processing Center (DPC) of Paid, disorders of the neonatal period and congenital malformations are the leading causes of disability of users served by the program.
With higher incidence, appear also endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases. "It is these latter which are the complications of diabetes, accounts for most lower limb amputations," the nurse Joseni Almeida. The supervisor Paid nurse Joseni Almeida, said that the delivery of equipment is only part of the procedure to the comprehensive care of the patient.
"All users have benefited by receiving a screening for the equipment. After delivery, they are monitored and evaluated by a multidisciplinary team to verify the adaptation of product and integrity of health, "advises, adding that the service user also participates in educational and sociocultural throughout the year.
The director of the Polyclinic Codajás, Fabio Manabu Shimizu, explains that comprehensive care is part of the quality policy of the health unit. "We are fulfilling the mission of service, to provide a quality of life and raise the self esteem of those who need equipment," he said. For Shimizu, financial resources and ensure quality service to registered users, including those that arise during the year, is one of the main challenges for 2011.
Apart from holding the stock in the four modules of the program, the Polyclinic provides the opening by the end of 2011, the State Center for Physical Rehabilitation of the Amazon (CERF). Profile of the total number of users served by Paid users in four modules, the group ranging in age from 41 to 60 years is the most important, representing 30% of the total.
Next comes the public aged between 19 and 40, with 23%. Patients aged 61 and 70 years represent 14% of the total. The children, aged 0-12 years accounted for 13%, followed by the elderly above 70 years, which are 12% of the total. But teenagers, aged between 13 and 18 years, representing 8% of users.
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