Team will bring together professionals from the Ministry of health, hospitals, the armed forces and of States and municipalities.
the Minister of health, Alexandre Padilha, announced last Friday (4) that will create a national force of Rescue of SUS. The team will gather professionals specialized in attendance to victims of natural disasters such as occurred in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro in the first fortnight of January
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according to the Minister, the proposal is to form the team based the Ministry about a hundred servers which already participated in similar actions, in addition to the health professionals of federal and university hospitals of the armed forces. “We hope to count with the partnership of the States and municipalities to consolidate in Brazil, in a professional manner, a great national team SUS rescue,” added the Minister
Padilha.
the announcement was made during ceremony of 42 ambulances. Of this total, 20 were forwarded by the Ministry of health to integrate the emergency Mobile Service (SAMU/192), in the State. The vehicles were received by the municipal secretariats of health in 34 cities in the State of Rio de Janeiro, including Nova Friburgo, Petrópolis, Teresópolis, the hardest hit by the rains of
beginning of the year.
the event was attended by the attendance of the Vice-Governor of Rio, Luiz Fernando Pezão, replacing the Governor Sérgio Cabral, State Secretary of health and Civil Defense, Sérgio Côrtes, and of the Assistant Secretary of Civil Defense and fire brigade commander, Pedro Machado.
enhanced Assistance
and donate the twenty ambulances that will meet the mountainous region of Rio, the Federal Government anticipated deployment of SAMU/192 in the areas affected by the rains, to strengthen assistance to the affected population
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the total amount invested in the purchase of 20 vehicles was $ 2.75 million, plus monthly pass costing $ 340 mil. Sending ambulances was agreed between the federal and State Governments to meet emergency demands.
“we’re giving one more step in the process of reconstruction with the deployment of Regional SAMU. It is crucial that we do not look ambulances only as an equipment to help people, but as an opportunity to reorganize the emergency services and emergency in the State “, assessed the Minister
Padilha.
between 20 ambulances guaranteed to the mountainous region of Rio, were delivered 14 units of basic support (USB) and six other units advanced support (USA). They will allow coverage of 16 municipalities by Samu/192, which, after the critical period, will have decentralised bases in Carmo, Bom Jardim, Lamb, Cantagalo, Trajano de Morais, Santa Maria Madalena, sinkhole, São José do Vale do Rio Preto, São Sebastião do Alto, solitary tinamous, Cachoeiras de Macacu, two bars and Guapimirim.
each USB portable Oximeter relies on External Defibrillator, and vacuum cleaner. The USA, also known as UTI-mobile, have portable Oximeter, infusion pump, vacuum cleaner, fan, pulmonary/monitor fetal detector and
cardioverter defibrillator.
at first, the new ambulances will provide service in conjunction with the eleven ambulances of Federal hospitals of Rio and two other of SAMU Metropolitan II, the region of Niterói, which already operate on character of emergency in affected cities
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