The State Department of Health announced this Tuesday (28-07), the signing of the agreement worth R$ 6.405.000,00 for the 30 beds in the ICUs with patients with coronavirus at the Hospital de Clínicas da Unicamp. The agreement provides for the allocation of R$4.053.000,00 for investment in equipment, R$1.330.266,00 for medicines and R$1.021.734,00 for medical and hospital materials. The resources are the counterpart to the investments made by the Ministry of Health.
The meeting was attended by the executive secretary of SES, Eduardo Ribeiro; the rector of Unicamp, Marcelo Knobel; the executive director of the Health Area at Unicamp, Manoel Barros Bertolo and the HC superintendent, Antonio Gonçalves de Oliveira Filho. State deputies Barros Munhoz and Rafa Zimbaldi, who had been following the election with the State since May, were also present.
“HC is a relevant partner in its area of coverage and this became even more evident in this joint action we implemented to combat the pandemic”, stated Ribeiro. Marcelo Knobel thanked the parliamentarians and the executive secretary, and also highlighted the operation of other COVID units under the university's administration, such as the Sumaré State Hospital and the Piracicaba Regional Hospital.
For superintendent Antonio Gonçalves de Oliveira Filho, the agreement highlights the State's recognition of the strategic actions that Unicamp's HC carries out in the region during this pandemic. “This is a crucial moment to demonstrate the importance of the hospital in this fight and it would not be possible to achieve these objectives without the involvement of all these parties”, he highlighted.
Barros Munhoz highlighted the need for resources to preserve the hospital's financial balance, in order to avoid a deficit resulting from actions to combat the new coronavirus. Rafa Zimbaldi reinforced the historical regional importance of the HC and suggested a visit by the new secretary and executive secretary to the unit after the pandemic.
Investments in equipment will reinforce the COVID-19 ICU areas at the hospital, as devices from other sectors were reallocated to combat the pandemic within the institution. Future acquisitions include multiparametric monitors, hemodialysis machines, electric beds, secretion aspirators, video laryngoscopes, electrocardiographs, cardioverters, emergency carts, among others.
The financial resources allocated to medicines used in ICUs and for orotracheal intubations are used to purchase sedatives, anesthetics, neuromuscular blockers, anticoagulants, cardiotonics, antibiotics, among others. These are high-consumption medications in these COVID-19 environments and are essential to adequately maintain patients' levels of consciousness, pulmonary ventilation, the cardiorespiratory system, as well as several vital clinical parameters.
Complementing the cost of this agreement is a list of 100 inputs and medical-hospital materials such as infusion pump sets, endotracheal tubes, intravenous catheters, electrodes, mechanical ventilation filters, disposable syringes, aspiration probes, ostomy drainage kits, bottles culture medium etc.
Published article originally on the Unicamp HC website.
