In Amazonas, health professionals cannot work due to bureaucracy | National newspaper

In a hotel in Manaus, there are about 100 doctors and nurses from the Brazil Conta Comigo program of the Ministry of Health, many of whom have been on the site for more than ten days and have not yet been admitted to a hospital. They are stuck with the bureaucracy.

This is what a nurse tells us who preferred not to identify herself.

“What they told us is that, as we are going to receive remuneration, to be clear in the public accounts, we need to sign and leave our name in the Federal Official Gazette, asking us to go and sign this temporary contract,” he said. .

And help would be very welcome. There are already 15,816 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the state and 1,160 deaths.

“I came to work, I came to help people. I am detained at the hotel and I cannot do anything because the legal procedure is delaying our entry to the hospital, “said the nurse.

The Amazon Health Surveillance Foundation (FVS) presented an estimate of the largest underreporting of cases in Manaus.

“It is estimated that today we have at least 60,000 cases not identified by the health service, and these people are certainly transmitting, carrying the virus and transmitting the virus wherever they are,” said FVS-AM, Rosemary Costa Pinto.

The foundation will evaluate people in all areas of the city, using the sampling method to approach the actual number of cases.

The Ministry of Health reported that 303 volunteers from the O Brasil Conta Comigo program were released to work in Amazonas. Another 85 have yet to complete the training and registration process.