Rio wants to perform 30,000 procedures a year in a new surgical center

The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, and the Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade, inaugurated this Friday (7th) the Super Carioca Surgery Center. It will operate in new facilities at the Ronaldo Gazolla Municipal Hospital, in the Acari neighborhood, in the northern part of the Rio de Janeiro capital. The renovation and purchase of equipment relied on funds from the federal government. The expectation is to perform 30,000 surgical procedures per year. The creation of the Super Carioca Surgery Center is part of a program announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in February, whose objective is to reduce the queues for elective surgeries, exams and specialized consultations within the Unified Health System (SUS). In order to have access to resources, each state prepares its action plan, which sets priorities according to the local reality. Gazolla. Equipped with high-tech appliances, the space has a total area of ​​930 square meters. According to the municipal secretary of Health, Daniel Soranz, the new structure will allow the reduction of the biggest queues, which are those for hernia and gallbladder surgeries. On site, other procedures such as lithotripsy, vasectomy, hydrocele, postectomy, sclerotherapy, video ligation, hemorrhoidectomy, thyroidectomy and correction of fissure and fistula can also be performed. Soranz said that the inauguration of the Super Carioca Surgery Center is another stage in the recovery of the Ronaldo Gazolla Municipal Hospital, which began during the covid-19 pandemic. “This hospital was practically closed. We had less than half functioning. And it was by decision of Mayor Eduardo Paes that we invested here to recover this unit that is so important for the city of Rio de Janeiro. And now we conclude a transformation process. We stop doing only clinical care and we are going to focus on the largest queues in the system. This hospital will be responsible for 20% of all surgeries that are performed in the city of Rio de Janeiro”, said the secretary. Renovations were also carried out in the outpatient clinics of the Ronaldo Gazolla Municipal Hospital. On average, 17,000 consultations can be performed per month in more than 20 specialties. According to minister Nísia Trindade, populations from other cities, in addition to the capital, will also be assisted. “These hospitals also have to be geared towards the needs of the municipality and the state. This is how we are going to work. We have to work together”, said the minister. Mayor Eduardo Paes evaluated that the resumption of federal investments in health, led by the minister, was decisive for taking the Super Centro Carioca de Surgery off the ground. “Even with all my good will, my good intentions and my sensitive heart, even with the management capacity of Daniel Soranz and the whole team, if you don’t have support from the federal government, if you don’t have a program and federal public policy, we couldn’t be opening this here”. Paes also announced that a new unit will be inaugurated in the future. “What I heard the most in my campaign was the queue for surgery and specialist appointments. Each dramatic story. A simple thing from a health point of view that I’ve had since I was 17 is a kidney stone. I keep imagining someone with that crazy pain waiting for care in the public system. I think we managed to move forward in this. The Super Center is a success. And I already want to announce here that we are going to do the Super Center in the west zone”. With resources from the same federal program, Rio de Janeiro had already inaugurated the Super Centro Carioca de Saúde, in the neighborhood of Benfica, also in the north zone of the capital of Rio de Janeiro. The site is dedicated to the care of specialists in various areas such as angiology, cardiology, neurology, dermatology, gynecology, orthopedics and urology, among others. Examination services are also offered, including endoscopy, colonoscopy, and MRI. An ophthalmological center was also set up to deal with the line of eye surgeries not only in the capital but also in other municipalities in the state. President Lula’s expectation is to guarantee that the poorest population would have access to specialist doctors and complex surgeries. “The poor even have access to the health center to make the first consultation. But when the doctor asks him to visit another specialist, he waits eight months, nine months, a year. Sometimes he dies without having the assistance”, said the president in February when he launched the program. Mais Médicos During the inauguration of the Carioca Super Surgery Center, Nísia Trindade announced that she had reached an agreement with Daniel Soranz, so that the Health Department of Rio de Janeiro allocates, in the form of co-payment, 300 vacancies to Mais Médicos. It is a program aimed at combating the lack of professionals in the interior and on the outskirts of large cities that ran between 2013 and 2019, when it was extinguished by the government of Jair Bolsonaro. In March of that year, it was relaunched by President Lula. Last month, the opening of 10,000 new vacancies in the co-participation modality was announced. In this modality, the Ministry of Health transfers to the states and municipalities the values ​​referring to basic health already subtracted from the cost of the doctors’ training scholarship. Local managers are responsible for ensuring payment of housing and food allowances. All other program expenses are borne by the Ministry of Health.

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