Municipal Palliative Care Network of Londrina
Services Offered
The Palliative Care Network established in the city of Londrina (Paraná State) is a multi-professional and interinstitutional committee which develops planned actions for the development of Palliative Care as a public policy in a large municipality, in collaboration with several healthcare settings, like hospitals, primary care units, home care units, emergency settings and community initiatives.
The Palliative Care Program was established by municipal law in 2023.
SPICT Uses
To identify eligible patients, teams were trained and encouraged to use the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT-BR) in its Brazilian Portuguese version.
Community services apply SPICT-4ALL to identify people with palliative care needs.
Contact: Fernando Marcucci
Email: [email protected]
UPA 24h Sacramenta - Belém do Pará
Services Offered
The Sacramenta 24h Emergency Care Unit (UPA 24h) is one of many brazilian’s free healthcare system’s institutions.
We tend to patients with acute and chronic diseases, offering backup to hospitals in the city, as our responsibility to keep them stable as they wait for an hospital bed. Many of these patients tend to accumulate, due to the lack of better growth in number of beds in hospital service in the states of the Amazon rainforest region (such as Pará and Amazonas). As it is common that patients tend to stay for long periods, depending on their conditions, the UPA24h Sacramenta offers a palliative care line in it’s emergency room and infirmary.
SPICT Uses
SPICT is beying used as one of many tools to guide healthcare workers and family members in better communication and understanding of the patient’s conditions as they wait hospital care. Brazilian legislation guarantees complex symptom control as a palliative care patient’s lawful right, but also implies that every institution, regardless of it’s size and complexity, must have some management strategies on the matter.
Other Information
SUS’s continuous education program uses SPICT-BR as one of many tools involved with palliative care, but knowledge and data locally produced in northern Brazil, to this end, is very scarce.
Contact: Mr. André De Sousa
Email: [email protected]