After the medical guild and the Uruguayan Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SUMI), express their concern and “surprise” at the call made days ago by the State Health Services Administration (ASSE) to train staff who working outside the areas of intensive care and having extra trained staff, ASSE President Leonardo Cipriani met with representatives of both sectors and pledged to join the Faculty of Medicine in training.
“Maybe (the meeting) had to happen at the beginning,” Cipriani acknowledged Monday at a news conference after the requested meeting. There both ASSE, the Medical Federation of the Interior (FEMI), the Medical Union of Uruguay (SMU) and the SUMI agreed to carry out two training instances that will take more than two classes. In the initial call, ASSE had proposed two instances, one virtual and one face-to-face. The first through the ASSE training platform, while the second would be face-to-face at the CTI of an ASSE executing unit.
In turn, the planning of the courses will also be included in the private sector and will be added to the coordination of the Faculty of Medicine, with whom the intensivists, trade unions and ASSE will have a new meeting this Tuesday.
“We want to assure the population that in the event of a disaster scenario, the staff who attend have the skills and competencies to provide quality care. Obviously we don’t want this to happen, and it doesn’t seem to be happening in the short term, but it can happen and we can’t wait, ”SMU President Gustavo Grecco noted.
Meanwhile, Cipriani said that the courses are not intended to “replace the intensivist”, but to train doctors who in their training have undergone intensive surveillance so that if necessary support the intensivist doctor.
The theoretical and practical planning in which the Faculty of Medicine will take part does not yet have a start date for the courses or its duration, which will depend on the number of participants, explained the member of the SUMI, Luis Nuñez. In the call of ASSE will accept the registration of doctors anesthesiologists, pediatricians intensivists, specialists in internal medicine, cardiology and emergencistas with more than three years of experience. Professionals must be qualified or be completing the last year of the prioritized specialties (under postgraduate or residency modality) “, the call has indicated.
Interested parties must register with the human resources department of the executing unit in which they work, while recruitment, if necessary, will be done through a support committee. The registration period opened this Thursday and will continue until Friday, January 29th.
Cipriani remarked that the system “works below 60%” of CTI occupancy, “as it always worked” and said that the effect of the vaccine “will not be immediate”, but that the immunization of the population will help keep the system from collapsing. According to the latest SUMI report, there are currently 99 inpatients in intensive care occupying 56.6% of the total number of beds, leaving about 334 beds free. 12.9% are patients with covid-19.