Respostas da Rede de Atenção à Saúde no estado da Bahia à pandemia da COVID-19.

Abstract

In 2019, the emergence of the first cases of COVID-19 in China and the rapid spread between countries and continents led the World Health Organization to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. From this, a new epidemiological scenario was installed, requiring a restructuring of the various health systems and services around the world, in order to provide quick responses to contain and/or mitigate the advance of the pandemic, mainly organizing emergency services, a priority location of search for health care in times of outbreaks and epidemics. In Brazil, the measures of the Unified Health System for the organization of health actions and services to face the pandemic began with the publication of Ordinance No. 188, of February 3, 2020, of the Ministry of Health, which declares a Public Health Emergency of National Importance. In the state of Bahia, actions to face the COVID-19 pandemic began in February 2020 with the publication of the 1st edition of the State Contingency Plan to Combat the New Coronavirus. In this sense, this research sought to characterize the process of organizing the Health Care Network in the state of Bahia to face COVID-19, from February to December 2020. This is a case study, qualitative research, exploratory and descriptive. Data were produced from secondary sources, and in total, the study included 102 documents. The results found in this study indicate that, during the formulation and implementation of the Health Policy in the state, the Directorate of Epidemiological Surveillance, the Directorate of Specialized Care, and the State Council of Municipal Health Secretaries played a leading role in the face of other sectors of the governmental structure of the Secretariat of Health in the State of Bahia, a situation that did not compromise the government's response to the pandemic.