ANOTHER 10000 KM OF MOBILE PRIMARY CARE

Since Alma Ata we all know that “Primary health care is the first level of contact of individuals, the family and community with the national health system bringing health care as close as possible to where people live and work, and constitutes the first element of a continuing health care process.” But what we have done in all these 30 years to take Primary Care as close as possible to where people work? Delivering Primary Care Services and Occupational Medicine care in developing countries and those with great geographical extensions has been proof to be a very difficult task. To developed a model of delivering Primary Care Services that were available right at every location we start thinking in taking Primary Care and Occupational Medicine right inside enterprises across our country. The way to do that was to create a Mobile Clinic were we could see patients as if we were in our clinic, but having the possibility of moving between different locations every day. Thus overcoming a great barrier we were facing when managers deny workers the possibility to leave to have periodical examinations and medical controls during working hours. In this way we start giving the enterprise and the employee the possibility to be seen by our Medical Staff without having to leave form work. Overall we are able to reach many small towns and villages where Primary care or Occupational Medicine Centres are absent. This presentation shows a novel, different and mobile approach to provide Primary care