A program created to reduce queues in the Unified Health System (SUS) for elective surgeries, complementary exams and specialized consultations was launched last Monday (6). The launch ceremony took place in Rio de Janeiro, and was attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade.
The National Queue Reduction Program will have an initial budget of R$ 600 million, in accordance with what was foreseen in the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of the Transition. These amounts will be passed on to states and municipalities across the country.
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The objective of the program is “to ensure technical and financial support to states and municipalities to respond to the chronic problem of queues for elective surgeries, exams and consultations in specialized care”. According to the folder's evaluation, these queues have been constantly growing for three reasons:
- Ageing population;
- Increase in non-communicable chronic diseases;
- Sequelae of covid-19.
The program will be divided into several phases. One emergency, focused on the “immediate increase” in the offer of surgeries, exams and consultations; and a structuring one, dedicated to “improving queue management processes and user service flow (regulation system) and qualification of primary care”.
The qualification of primary care will help to reduce demands for specialized care. Thus, a greater number of doctors will be available in primary care teams, in addition to investment in training and more intense use of technologies such as telehealth.
According to the ministry, each state will be able to establish the priority surgeries, according to the local reality. Thus, for the state to receive the money, it will have to deliver a diagnosis with the real local demand for surgeries, in addition to planning to execute the queue reduction program.
On January 26th, during the first ordinary annual meeting of the Tripartite Intermanagers Commission (CTI), formed by the Ministry of Health, National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass) and National Council of Municipal Health Secretaries (Conasems), the approval of the program.
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