Publicación:

Informe de práctica social secretaria de salud distrital de Santa Marta

Resumen

The Cooperative University of Colombia before the declaration for the health emergency declared by the pandemic by SARS COVID 19 in our Country, supports the action plan of the District Health Secretariat, through the university extension in the modality of social practice to develop by candidates for the title of epidemiologists. The Santa Marta District Health Secretariat, through the Public Health program in the Sala SAR area; One of its functions is to carry out Field Epidemiological Investigations (ICE) to people reported as positive cases of ARI by COVID-19; These investigations were carried out according to the proposed methodology through telephone calls, using the database provided by the territorial entity, as well as the institutionalized formats for the collection and analysis of information. The objective of the IEC was based on identifying possible sources of contact, transmission chain and close contacts of the index case in order to carry out epidemiological fences to family, work and social contacts in a timely manner; where socio-educational actions are carried out to promote preventive isolation, social distancing, use of personal protection elements, hygienic and sanitary measures, among others. In the same way, people are informed and sensitized about the warning signs for the new coronavirus, in order to stop or reduce the transmissibility of the virus and thus reduce morbidity and mortality from this event. In general terms, the activity was carried out according to the methodology of conducting investigations through telephone calls; Some users were willing to collaborate with the information, it was possible to arrange schedules that did not interfere with their work, however there were some barriers due to the fact that some numbers were wrong, other users decided not to access the interview for security reasons and some took the opportunity to express disagreements related to the inopportunity in the delivery of the test results, they were uncomfortable when answering the questions and did not have access to the complete information of the contacts.