With bariatric and orthopedic surgeries, the joint effort wants to reach 48 thousand patients – Cities

Started in July last year, the “MS Saúde: More Health, Less Queue” surgery effort, funded by federal and state resources, will be extended for another year in Mato Grosso do Sul.

The SES (State Department of Health) reported yesterday (3) that it intends to call an additional 48,778 SUS patients to undergo elective (non-urgent) surgical procedures, by April 2025.

The day before, Thursday (2), the department published in the Official State Gazette the list of surgeries that could be included in the joint effort, according to the demand of the population that each city hall presents. Among them are bariatric and orthopedic.

Others will treat patients with cases of craniofacial anomaly; ophthalmology; vascular; genitourinary (genital and urinary organs); general surgery; otolaryngology; repair plastic; and head and neck.

Surgeries will be paid based on different values, according to an official publication. For now, only the prices for each procedure have been fixed. It will be possible to know the total amount invested in the joint effort when city halls sign up to the program and formalize the amount to be carried out for each procedure.

Exams – Just like the first phase of the joint effort, the second phase of the program will also carry out diagnostic exams.

SES estimates the total at 59,634. These include MRI; computed tomography; ultrasound; cardiac catheterization; endoscopy; colonoscopy; densitometry; echocardiogram; prostate biopsy; and electroneuromyography. The same tests were carried out in the initial stage, but in smaller quantities.

Almost the goal – SES also reported that it came very close to the goal of performing surgeries on 15,000 patients between July last year and April this year. According to the department’s internal control, 14,727 were carried out in total.

The majority were ophthalmological surgeries (8,682). Then come surgeries on the digestive system, attached organs and abdominal wall (3,704); system of bones and muscles (1,002); genitourinary system (759); upper airways of the face and neck (315); and circulatory system (265).

Campo Grande had the largest share: there were 3,295 procedures. Next, are Santa Rita do Pardo (1,569); Cassilândia (1,092); Costa Rica (1,053); Aquidauana (795); Cushion (681); Bataguassu (613); Sidrolândia (608); Maracaju (604); Miranda (551); Corumbá (536); Chapadão do Sul (436); Aparecida do Taboado (419); and Itaquiraí (385).

More municipalities with surgeries already carried out within the collective effort are Fátima do Sul (374); Três Lagoas (336); Beautiful (311); Camapuã (305); Paranaíba (212); Rio Brilhante (131); Nova Alvorada do Sul (113); Anastácio (107); Itaporã (104); Naviraí (90); Sound (21); Caarapó (18); Garden (14); and Dourados (4).

“It is important to highlight that the municipalities received patients from several cities. Failure to appear on the list does not mean that the municipality in question was not served, as not all municipalities have hospitals qualified for such procedures”, SES clarified in a note.

Little more than half – Regarding exams, the goal was distant. 42.5 thousand were planned. Of this total, 24,429 consultations were carried out. Most of the exams in the first phase of the joint effort were carried out in Dourados (1st), Campo Grande (2nd), Três Lagoas (3rd) and Corumbá (4th).

The main justification for launching “MS Saúde” was the backlog of queues during the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced non-urgent procedures to be postponed.

Even though the first phase reduced this pent-up demand in Mato Grosso do Sul, SES assesses that continuity is necessary.

“As in the health area, high demand is constant, even with the reduction in the queue, created based on data from state regulation, spontaneous demand continued to grow. So, there will always be demand to be met. However, the amount held back, which still had great consequences from the pandemic, was reduced considerably”, he stated in a note.

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