Avaliação das ações dispensadas no atendimento aos pacientes acometidas por hanseníase na atenção primária em saúde no município de Vitória da Conquista, BA / Evaluation of actions taken in the care of patients affected by leprosy in primary health care in the city of Vitória da Conquista, BA
Constatou-se que a maior parte dos profissionais não fez atendimento a pessoas com hanseníase no último mês, não realizou abordagem para pessoas com esse agravo e não fez preenchimento de ficha para avaliação dermatoneurológica. Dos 405 Agentes Comunitários de Saúde que respondeu ao questionário, observou-se que a maior parte destes não realizou abordagem a pessoas com hanseníase, no último mês, como não fez acompanhamento de casos em episódios reacionais e não realizou atividades em grupo para pessoas com hanseníase.
Introduction:
Leprosy remains a chronic infectious process of significant magnitude in several regions of the world, especially in Brazil, despite the advances made. Even so, there is great difficulty in their control bases, due to their neglected diseasecharacter.
Objective:
To evaluate the actions taken in the care of patients affected by leprosy in Primary Health Care for suspicion, identification, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up in the city of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, to guarantee the right to.
Methods:
This study was a survey of a larger survey (INTEGRAHANS) conducted throughout the territory of the referred municipality, urban area and rural area. It is a quantitative descriptive research that used as instrument for data collection the application of a questionnaire for each group of
It was found that most of the professionals did not attend to people with leprosy in the last month, did not approach people with this disease and did not fill out the form for dermatoneurological evaluation. Of the 405 Community Health Agents that responded to the questionnaire, it was observed that most of them did not approach people with leprosy in the last month, as did not follow up cases in reactional episodes and did not carry out group activities for people with leprosy.