Publicación:

Informe de práctica social Secretaria de Salud Distrital de Santa Marta 2020

Resumen

The District Health Secretariat of Santa Marta, in order to improve the health conditions and quality of life of its inhabitants, seeks to implement effective actions that allow promoting, contending, mitigating and responding in an adequate and proportionate way to the current situation of the country and of the city against Covid-19. In order to minimize the impact of the health emergency, said territorial entity, within the framework of the fulfillment of its functions, has implemented the development of Field Epidemiological Investigations, as a surveillance mechanism used for outbreaks and pandemics. For the elaboration of said investigation, files established by the National Institute of Health were used, where sociodemographic data, signs and symptoms of interest in public health, time lines and information on close contacts or possible suspects were collected; in addition to the conditions of the home and family. Regarding the execution of these activities, special teams were established that made it possible to identify the cause, source and form of transmission of Covid-19; and thus implement in a timely manner the pertinent control measures; To do this, goals of 50 files were established for each internship student.The dynamics developed satisfactorily, the experience allowed to establish new strategies to approach the patient successfully, which allowed to build knowledge in the correct way of how to carry out field investigations; synchronously, health promotion was carried out in order to mitigate the contagion by Covid-19.