Porto Alegre brings a health unit to the Anchieta neighborhood this Thursday

Residents of the Anchieta neighborhood, in the North Zone of the Capital, will be served by the mobile health unit this Thursday (28). The bus will be parked at the Vila Dique Residents Association (Avenida Dique, 855), from 9am to 4pm.

Against Covid, there will be vaccination for priority groups and for those who have not completed the two-dose vaccination schedule, as per guidance from the Ministry of Health.

Also available on site will be medical and nursing consultations, cytopathology collection to prevent cervical cancer, pregnancy test, application of injectable medication, dressing and removal of stitches.

Communities will also have access to prenatal consultations, rapid tests for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B and C, blood pressure and glucose checks, childcare consultations, referrals to specialists, distribution of simple prescription medicines and prescription updates.

There will be no service on Friday (29).

Flu vaccine

The influenza vaccination campaign began on Monday for people aged 60 and over, children from six months to under 6 years of age, pregnant women, women who have recently given birth – up to 45 days postpartum -, quilombolas and indigenous people. The supply restriction occurs due to the quantity of doses received by the Municipal Health Department (SMS). D-Day will be on April 13th and the application of doses will last until May 31st.

With immunization, the Ministry of Health intends to reduce complications, hospitalizations and deaths resulting from influenza virus infections in the target population. The objective is to vaccinate at least 90% of each of the priority groups.

In Porto Alegre, the estimated target audience eligible to receive the vaccine is 697,995 people, with the elderly being the largest number: 292,260. The vaccine offered by the Unified Health System (SUS) is trivalent, guaranteeing protection against the Influenza A H3N1 and H3N2 and Influenza B viruses.

For next week, the plan is to also offer the dose to health workers at all levels, public and private, education workers, from basic to higher education, people with comorbidities and special clinical conditions of all ages from of six months, people with disabilities, teenagers and young people (12 to 21 years old) undergoing socio-educational measures, prison system employees and people deprived of liberty.

In the last stage, in the third week of the campaign, members of the security and rescue forces, Armed Forces, truck drivers, urban public transport workers and port workers join the first groups.

On holiday

Due to the Holy and Easter holidays, on Sunday, health care in Porto Alegre will be maintained in hospitals and emergency rooms in Porto Alegre. During the weekend, the Emergency Hospital (HPS) and Presidente Vargas Maternal and Child Hospital (HMIPV) are normally open.

The emergency services operating 24 hours a day are:

– UPA Zona Norte Moacyr Scliar (Rua Jerônimo Velmonovitz);
– PA Bom Jesus (Rua Bom Jesus, 410);
– PA Cruzeiro do Sul (Rua Professor Manoel Lobato, 151);
– PA Lomba do Pinheiro (Estrada João de Oliveira Remião, 5120, stop 12);
– IAPI Mental Health PA (Rua Valentim Vicentini).