HEPATOPROTECTION: A NEW PROTECTION STRATEGY TO LIVER DISEASE

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: The State of Pará had only three centers of diagnosis and treatment for viral hepatitis in the capital, so that the long distance to the centers favored low reporting and increased complications of these liver diseases. Our intention is draw educational strategies for the prevention of viral hepatitis and other liver diseases by the Primary Health Care, decentralize treatment, and integrate various health attention levels in order to better care line of liver diseases and reduce morbidity. METHODOLOGY: Doctors of Liver Group performed training of health workers, nursing technicians and primary care physicians in strategic municipalities as to liver diseases, especially viral hepatitis, to the creation of the H agent in order to facilitate the dialogue between the community and the service health in relation to liver disease. In addition, the team led to the development of rapid tests in basic health unit, and creation of new centers of treatment. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Achieved an increase in the number of educational activities and prevention of viral hepatitis with training for primary care professionals, performing rapid testing with serology for confirmation of positive tests and notifications of these diseases, as well as expansion of treatment poles. This strategy of facing the virus hepatitis together with the primary care provides precoce therapeutic targeting and diagnosis concerning primary care preventing the spread of virus in large-scale and reducing the impact of diseases of chronic infection, enabling improvements in overall assistance in relation to liver disease in the state of Pará.