Decentralized pediatric surgery service, UdelaR-ASSE 2003-2015

Abstract

In health, an efficient, effective and equitable health system contributes to the improvement of people's quality of life. In children with surgical pathology of high prevalence, the access to a service nearby to the area in which they reside, contributes to these objectives. In a crisis context, the Pediatric Surgical Clinic (PSC) sees the opportunity to decentralize. The objective is to describe the decentralized Service of Pediatric Surgery dependent to the PSC in the period 2003-2015. Following our objective, we made a documentary analysis of the decentralization and a description of the service. The analysis shows: 10 units of pediatric surgery scheduled, corresponding to Hospitals: Las Piedras, Durazno, Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell (CHPR), Rocha, Minas, San Carlos, Rivera, Salto, Bella Union and Florida. It has been made between 2003 and 2015 a total of 1369 clinics, corresponding to 11265 consultations, with 345 surgical dates that concluded in 1994 children operated. Two pedagogical units were integrated, and 113 students: 33 undergraduate, 46 internal practitioners and 34 residents and postgraduate. Seven meetings called "week of pediatric surgery" were made in the Rivera Hospital. A procedure manual was developed with officials and authorities. Was included the family members to accompany their children in the post-anesthetic recovery room. The decentralization process is consolidated, with the inter-institutional work experience between the academia and the public health sub-sector. It has fulfilled with the objectives of providing an equal assistance, covering an unsatisfied demand and solving the pathology of high prevalence in a properly manner