Month: October 2011

City of Maracanaú presents distinguished dental service for people with special needs.

a demand formed by people with autism, cerebral palsy and hysteria. This is the public who happened to be serviced by a multidisciplinary and specialized dental service, a pioneering initiative in the Northeast, to perform surgeries and other dental procedures

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dental care program for people with special needs has been deployed since April. Since then, already held more than a dozen surgery and there is a queue of more than 30 patients

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the Dental Specialty Center Coordinator (CEO) of Maracanaú, Carlos César Oliveira Carneiro, says that the service arose from the need to meet a large demand both locally and in neighboring municipalities, that had the favor of CEO work within a secondary hospital

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“ Are aggressive, violent and patients, through suffering, become even more difficult to be watched. That is why there was a need to sedate and then apply the general anesthesia, says Caesar

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He reported that this unmet demand exists throughout the country, but there are few States that offer the service on a regular basis. In addition, it also happens in Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina. “ there is a sensitivity of public authorities with respect to watching these patients. But, a standard of the Conselho Federal de Odontologia says that this type of surgical procedure can only happen in a hospital environment ”

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Caesar remembers that Maracana̼ gathered favourable conditions because, besides the determination to maintain the service, the CEO works inside the hospital, which can count on neurologist, anaesthetist, doctors and dentists, surgeons and nurses the instrumentalists. Since the installation of the program, the demand for surgery has been distributing by Maracana̼ and the neighbouring localities of Pacatuba, Maranguape and even Fortress, as the neighborhood of Siqueira. The waiting queue comes from the need to require patient preoperative examinations, such as neurological and cardiological, Рso that the operation to occur with total safety for the patient Рand little offer of

experts.

Access

“ at a time when if instituted the national conference access with Quality we can imagine if normal people suffer from the difficulty of access, imagine what happens to those with disabilities ”, says Caesar. In the case of Maracanaú, there is only one neurologist for a population of about 209 thousand people, but that reaches more than 400 thousand when add up with the inhabitants of adjacent areas ”, says the CEO’s coordinator

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the surgeon dentist Antonio Rafael Oliveira e Silva, a specialist in Dentistry for patients with special needs, reminds us that there were already similar care in hospital units as the Hospital Infantil Albert Sabin (Hias) – since only – children and the General Hospital of Fortaleza (HGF), serving clients in some special cases

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Rafael explains that the primary care is the surgery for extraction of teeth condemned. But the occasion also motivates that expanded support, ranging from the removal of the Tatars, the restoration until the completion of the channel

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the profile of the patient who seeks the hospital is, mostly, around 80%, people with mental retardation, coming below the autistic and hysterical. However, there is always a patient’s resistance to be driven to the hospital, once that suffering has been going on for some time, which makes it even more violent. In this case, Rafael reminds us that we cannot do without sedation. Another concern is to provide timely high, even as a preventive way to prevent hospital infection

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Example of beneficiary was Charlemagne Almeida do Nascimento, 44 years, with a history of hyperactivity and mental disabilities. His sister, Maria Clecivânia of Birth, resident in Jereissati I, the battle for a simple tooth extraction began in 2009. At the time, came to make a health plan, which had secured in the Act of signature of the contract which the beneficiary would receive the specialized dental treatment

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“ we passed by embarrassment and humiliation. When my brother sat in the dentist’s Chair, the trader said it could not serve you. We were indignant with the plan and seek the Ministério Público, ultimately decided by the return of 40% of the payment that had already been done ”, remembers Clecivânia.

the outcome of the novel was the bailout by the Hospital of Maracanaú. “ Was a Divine Providence that reflected in the quality of life of my brother and at the end of a long suffering

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more information via telephone (85) 3521.5067 or at www.maracanau.ce.gov.br/saude site