In 2021, of the 5,517 Brazilian municipalities that declared the need for hospitalization of people who contracted covid-19, 5,468 (99.1%) reported the occurrence of deaths. There were deaths from the disease in all cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. In 2020, deaths occurred in 88.8% of the 5,109 municipalities with hospitalization.
The data are from the 2021 Municipal (Munic) and State (Estadic) Basic Information Surveys, released today (8) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
“The analysis of the occurrence of deaths in the states of the Federation highlights the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Ceará, Sergipe, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso, in which 100% of the municipalities with confirmed cases of covid-19 and in need of hospitalization reported the occurrence of deaths”, says the IBGE.
Among the 5,549 municipalities that reported clinically or laboratory confirmed cases of covid-19, 5,517 (99.4%) declared the need for hospitalization of people affected by the disease, a figure higher than that observed in 2020: 5,109 (93.8% ).
Last year, of the 5,517 municipalities where hospitalizations were necessary due to covid-19, 48.1% reported that the number of patients exceeded the capacity of beds and intensive care units (ICUs) public and private and associated with the Unified Health System (SUS). In 2020, this percentage was 23.6% in the 5,109 municipalities where hospitalizations for the disease occurred.
The researchers also noticed the increase in the need to maintain people for more than 24 hours in non-hospitalization units, rising from 31.1% to 51.9% between 2020 and 2021.
There was also an increase in the proportion of municipalities that declared the need to refer patients to another city for procedures in the area.
health: from 91.6% in 2020 to 95.8% in 2021.
According to the survey, in 5,393 municipalities (95.9%), there were places with conditions to carry out PCR or serological tests in patients suspected of covid-19. In cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, all reported the existence of this location.
Last year, 5,549 (99.6%) municipalities reported that they had clinically or laboratory confirmed cases of the disease. Only 19 cities said there were no confirmed cases, all with fewer than 50,000 residents.
According to the IBGE, 3,170 municipalities reported that the number of beds was expanded to meet the demand of patients with covid-19, with 69.2% (2,193) expanding their existing structure.
Culture
The results of Munic 2021 show that 61.1% of municipalities distributed resources from the Aldir Blanc Act, to help the cultural sector, due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. The distribution of resources increased as the size of the municipalities increased, reaching 100% in those with more than 500,000 inhabitants. The region with the largest number of those who distributed resources was the Northeast (71.3%), followed by the South (61.2%).
Regarding the resources to which they were entitled, only Paraíba, Paraná and Santa Catarina used less than 50% of the total.
In general, 51.8% of the municipalities stated that they had some difficulty in implementing or were unable to distribute the law’s resources, a rate that dropped to 24.5% in cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants.
Among the 27 units of the Federation, only seven said they had some difficulty implementing the law. In general, the problems faced relate to the lack of structure, personnel or physical, for the proper implementation of the Aldir Blanc Act.
Among the most frequent difficulties are the lack of structure of administrative personnel to implement the law (CE, PE, MG and MT), lack of structure of face-to-face assistance personnel to distribute resources (CE and MT) and lack of physical structure (window etc.) for payments and information about institutions and cultural agents in the state (CE).
