The Ministry of Health signed an unprecedented agreement to expand the actions of the Agora Tem Especialistas program in Rio Grande Sul. Grupo Hospitalar Conceição (GHC), a public company linked to the department, will hire temporary medical teams to carry out joint procedures in two hospital units, the Hospital Universitário de Canoas and Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Lourenço do Sul. The agreement was announced by minister Alexandre Padilha, this Saturday (20), in Porto Alegre.
The two units were chosen because their structures have the potential to increase the number of surgeries. It will be up to Grupo Hospitalar Conceição to hire companies that will provide professionals, equipment, supplies and medicines. Various specialties should be included in the joint efforts, such as general, vascular, dermatological, urological, ophthalmological and gynecological surgery, according to the needs of each region and the arrival of professionals.
The two hospitals are also located in priority service regions: the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, where the Canoas University Hospital is located, has the largest surgical queues in the state, and the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul. And where the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Lourenço do Sul is located, which records the longest delay in carrying out surgeries. In Canoas, around 1,600 procedures are planned per month and, in São Lourenço, approximately 180.
New center
Alexandre Padilha also announced the start of work on the new Diagnostic and Therapy Support Center (CADT), in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, as part of the GHC structure, expected to carry out more than 700,000 exams and procedures per year, once it comes into operation.
With more than 19 thousand square meters, the CADT will expand the offer of imaging and laboratory tests, hemodynamics, endoscopy and also procedures such as hemodialysis and hemotherapy. It will also have a nuclear medicine sector and another for radiointervention. Patients from all over Rio Grande do Sul will be served at the location.
The work will receive investments from Novo Pac of R$200 million. “We are going to build a nine-story building to concentrate imaging tests such as resonance, tomography and ultrasound.”
“GHC will break a record this year, with more than 4 million exams and procedures. When the center is ready, the expectation is to carry out another 700 thousand exams and procedures per year, with a more modern and dignified structure for workers and patients”, added Padilha.
