SES-TO promotes training on tuberculosis

With the aim of qualifying health professionals for early diagnosis, adequate treatment and monitoring of the disease, the State Department of Health (SES-TO) started this Tuesday, 7th, the Training for Intensification of the Active Search for Respiratory Symptoms, Timely and Adequate Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection (LTBI). The event continues until May 8th, from 8 am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm in the auditorium of the Regional Electoral Court of Tocantins (TRE-TO).

The event coordinated by the technical area of ​​Tuberculosis/SES-TO is aimed at nurses and doctors in primary care in the 139 municipalities of Tocantins and Special Indigenous District (Dsei) and will be taught by specialists from the Ministry of Health (MS) Denise Arakaki and Liliana Romero Vega.

The training is a continuation of the event promoted last year. “The event is the second module of the training that took place in November 2023, so health professionals who work in surveillance and assistance to patients with tuberculosis were invited, prioritizing those who participated in the previous event as this is a continuation of the training , in the first one we work on prevention, focused on identifying and monitoring contacts and in this module we are working on the clinical management of tuberculosis”, explains the nurse, responsible for the technical area of ​​Tuberculosis/SES-TO, Rhonner Uchôa.

“These moments of training are very important for us to improve epidemiological levels, achieve a cure and reduce treatment abandonment. Here we can clarify our doubts and thus put everything we have learned into practice. We left here to multiply this knowledge within our municipality, thereby improving our surveillance, care and monitoring of this population”, highlighted the nurse specialist in family and community health, from the municipality of Lagoa da Confusao, Larissa Campos.

The disease

Tuberculosis is an infectious and transmissible disease that affects the lungs and can also affect other organs. It is caused by the bacteria Mycobaterium Tuberculosis. According to data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (Sinan), in 2023 Tocantins confirmed 216 new cases of the disease.