Experience of the Brazilian health regulatory agency in coping with the covid-19 pandemic: preventive actions of infection in health services
International Journal of Development Research
Experience of the Brazilian health regulatory agency in coping with the covid-19 pandemic: preventive actions of infection in health services
Received 06th December, 2020; Received in revised form 17th January, 2021; Accepted 14th February, 2021; Published online 17th March, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Magda Machado de Miranda Costa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
COVID-19 is a public health problem worldwide. The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) is responsible for preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), in conjunction with state and municipal health surveillance centers (VISAs). Thus, the present study aimed to relate the experience of ANVISA in organizing, preventing and monitoring COVID-19 in the country’s healthcare services. Given the emergency, ANVISA, VISAs and specialists developed sanitary strategies and actions to organize, prevent and monitor COVID-19, between December 2019 and March 2021, in order to establish national disease prevention measures, and collect HAI-COVID-19 data. A number of national regulations and recommendations were published, such as technical notes and risk alerts to prevent COVID-19, in addition to disseminating the measures adopted. The experience may contribute to organizing, preventing and monitoring COVID-19, provided the national measures established are adopted by healthcare services. The improvement in sanitary response processes to prevent COVID-19 in these services is essential to strengthening the Brazilian Health Regulatory System (SNVS) in the fight against the disease.
