About to complete one year, the program has not yet performed anti-bullying surgeries in MS – Cities

Among the queues for elective – non-urgent – ​​surgeries that the Government of Mato Grosso do Sul highlighted and promised to reduce through a program that will celebrate its one-year anniversary tomorrow (8), are three procedures on the ears, eyes and breasts of children and teenagers advertised as “bullying preventers”. But no such surgery has been performed so far. The justification, according to the SES (State Department of Health), is that “the hospitals were unable to assemble the teams to carry out the procedures”.

The balance sent by SES about the MS Saúde program, where bullying was included, shows that the majority of patients treated so far have had ophthalmological surgeries such as the one that corrects cataracts, for example. There are no ophthalmological correction interventions or aesthetic repairs.

O Campo Grande News found that 348 people have already been registered, awaiting surgeries related to their breasts and ears, and another 10 to repair misaligned eyes.

SES states that a new phase of the program began this month, with the forecast of carrying out more than 48 thousand surgeries, and that it intends to reopen the opportunity to students who suffer from problems that lead to discrimination in the classroom.

The state program MS Saúde: More Health, Less Queues has R$45 million in resources from the Government of Mato Grosso do Sul, plus approximately R$17 million from the Federal Government’s National Queue Reduction Program.

At the time of launch, the government highlighted that payment for surgeries and also diagnostic exams carried out by MS Saúde could be amounts up to six times higher than the SUS reference table, as a way of guaranteeing the hiring of qualified professionals. Even so, according to SES, there is a lack of teams in accredited hospitals

No prediction – “We are in the phase of receiving approvals from hospitals in relation to the procedures launched in the resolution”, confirmed today (7) the coordinator of MS Health, Maria Angélica Benetasso, in response to the question about the expected start of anti-bullying surgeries in the State. A possible date was not provided by her.

In tables published in the Official State Gazette on May 8 last year, within the resolution that the coordinator cites, and on the institutional website, SES identifies these surgeries in the “reparative” group.

In another resolution, published on May 26, SES includes surgery to correct strabismus as a procedure and informs the list of hospitals that have joined the program, prices and how many patients are in line for each one.

Reviews – The initiative became the target of criticism by Pedagogy and Psychology professionals, including those from other states, who do not defend plastic surgery as a way to avoid attacks on the appearance of children and adolescents.

Douglas Menon, vice-president of the SBCP (Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery) in Mato Grosso do Sul, considered the approach of the state program and recalled that the procedures are carried out by the SUS and there is already a queue for them. “The right time for surgery is very important. The patient has to be psychologically stable and aware of the stages of the procedure and understand that the procedure will bring improvements, but it is not the solution to the problems, which can often be of a psychological nature”, added the representative.

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