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]