Ministry launches initiative to map health education

The Ministry of Health launched today (7) the Dynamic Panels of the Health Education Mapping System (Simapes), a data collection and database integration mechanism aimed at mapping, monitoring and evaluating the installed capacity in the Unified Health System. Health (SUS) in the process of training health professionals.

During the panel’s launch ceremony, Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said that the panels represent a “corollary of a set of policies aimed at qualifying those who deal with health”, which, according to him, includes health workers. of health, “who are those who go to the places to collect data”.

“There is no health system without human resources”, said the minister, adding that “the health professional does not exist for himself, but to implement public policies in the interest of society”.

In this sense, the minister highlighted the need for always correct diagnoses. “And there is no correct diagnosis without data”, he added in advocating remote communication tools to lead to expertise from universities further on, towards the interior of the country.

“By launching a portal, what is wanted is to improve the training of doctors and have complete diagnoses of the fields of practice, because we need doctors in remote areas”, he added.

fourth wave

During his speech, Queiroga said that there are “antichrists out there heralding a fourth wave of covid-19, while the average number of deaths falls”. “They had already said the same with the [chegada da variante] Delta; that we would have a meltdown. Where’s the collapse? Now comes the same narrative again,” she added.