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“It is inevitable that we have to assume some tougher measures and more restrictive measures“, Considers Gustavo Borges, vice president of the College of Public Health Physicians, in an interview with Radio Observador. “I do not know if we are going to move towards total confinement, but I think it is possible to make some kind of restriction to the movements of people, to limit the time of departure” or other measures that reduce social contact outside the family space, because the population “To behave more carelessly.”
Interviewed in the program Directo al Sujeto by journalists Carla Jorge de Carvalho and Judite França, the director of the College of Public Health Physicians also warns that “the situation is not very easy in primary health care“Because family physicians are” busy with Covid patients “and” space is shrinking for non-Covid patients. “
In hospitals, the situation continues to be different, because there is “some margin to attend” to patients infected by the new coronavirus, although, with the evolution of the pandemic, “even hospitals will lose room to maneuver to care for non-Covid patients“, alert.
“Hospitals are losing space for non-Covid patients.” The interview with the vice president of the National Association of Public Health Physicians
Gustavo Borges understands that “there’s no chance we can imagine the numbers going down in the next two weeks or stabilizing, taking into account the unbridled pace that they have had in recent times and the inability of the SNS to respond to an extraordinary increase in cases that we have had ”.
“The number of people is so great that this job is very difficult to accommodate, even if we had the perfect team”, Considers Gustavo Tato Borges.
“It is not possible, with the human resources that are in the field, to respond quickly, as would be desirable, within a maximum period of 24 hours, to the epidemiological investigation of new cases, to isolate their contacts and, in fact, achieve that the transmission chains are broken ”.
For this reason, the NHS “will now host nursing students” to help conduct epidemiological investigations. “It will have a positive impact,” he guarantees, but “the problem is knowing when they will come, how long will it take to train them”Says the head of the Association of Public Health Doctors. And we have the notion that, at the beginning, at least, the quality of the epidemiological surveys will not be perfect ”.
But, to what extent could the pandemic be controlled? “We needed many more professionals, not just doctors, interns, and public health specialists, and not much else to look for, but also public health nurses, more technicians, from people who could monitor contacts on a regular basis, for example, operators call center that, well trained, would do the daily monitoring of all these people, we needed health centers with enough phone lines for 10, 20 or 30 people to make calls at the same time. “
