Government shows progress in healthcare with management by Social Organizations.

Goiás 247 - The Health Secretariat presented, this Thursday, a report showing the optimization of care in the state network after the management by Social Organization (OS) was established by Governor Marconi Perillo. The numbers were presented at a hearing organized by the Health Committee of the Assembly, chaired by Deputy Gustavo Sebba (PSDB).

In three years, the government's total spending on hospitals increased by 28%, while there was a 101% increase in outpatient care, 48% in surgeries, 80% in inpatient wards, and 60% in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions. At the beginning of the model's implementation, the state government was criticized by the opposition, which later recognized the advances in healthcare.

Today, Goiás has become a benchmark in hospital management, and the governors of Alagoas and Mato Grosso have already visited Goiânia to learn about the OS model with the intention of implementing it in their respective states. 

The first experience with OS (Operational Scheme) occurred at the Henrique Santillo Rehabilitation and Readaptation Center (Crer) in 2002. Since then, the number of medical consultations has jumped from 2.296 to 142.978. Hospitalizations have increased from 2.526 to 39.388. Finally, surgical procedures have risen from 130 per year to 9.820. “The level of excellence at Crer is so high that, at the request of the Ministry of Health, we have become consultants for states that want to adopt reference centers in traumatology and orthopedics,” says Sérgio Daher, executive superintendent of the unit.

Nine years after the creation of Crer, the governor decided to extend the management model to all hospitals in the Goiás public network. Proof that the gamble paid off is that, according to the National Accreditation Organization (ONA), four of the thirteen best public hospitals in Brazil are in Goiás: Crer, Hospital Geral de Goiânia (HGG), Hospital de Doenças Tropicais (HDT), and Hospital de Urgências de Santa Helena (Hurso). “Hopefully all public hospitals in Brazil will one day be like HGG and Hugo,” said state deputy Dr. Antônio (PDT), who is also a doctor. “It’s a shame the opposition isn’t here to see this. They would leave here as enthusiastic about Goiás’s healthcare as I am,” stated Talles Barreto (PTB).

Hugo, which will cease to be the largest emergency hospital in the state when Hugo 2 is inaugurated in the coming days, is a symbol of the success of the management model that Marconi implemented in healthcare. In three years, outpatient visits increased from 61.286 to almost 71, while the number of beds practically doubled (from 235 to 407) and ICU beds increased from 44 to 58.

During that same period, surgeries jumped from 9.136 to 14.331, hospitalizations in wards grew by 37,8%, and in the ICU by 22,4%. “Hugo, which went through difficulties, now has a different reality. The hospital isn't just beautiful in photos. Any time you go there, you'll find the unit shining and without stretchers in the hallways,” says Dr. Ciro Ricardo de Castro, general director of Hugo.

Another symbol of the turnaround that the Government of Goiás has made in healthcare is the HDT, which was even shut down in 2012 due to a lack of conditions for providing care. Today, it is one of the 13 healthcare units in Brazil with a quality certificate from the National Accreditation Organization (ONA) and a reference in infectious diseases. Coincidentally, technicians from Rio de Janeiro were in Goiânia at the time of the hearing, visiting the hospital, because they want their healthcare service to function like Goiás's.