Professionals start working in April. They will be in the health network to help the state contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
Starting next Saturday, April 4th, professionals hired by the Rio State Department of Health (SES) will begin working in the health network. The vacancies will be distributed across 12 units, all managed by Fundação Saúde.
There will be biologists, doctors, nurses, nursing technicians and pharmacists and other hires to provide support in the state's service units.
Edmar Santos, Secretary of State for Health, the faster the professionals contract, the better to meet the need to care for a greater number of patients with covid-19.
“We are going through an exceptional moment. No health system in the world is prepared for the significant increase in demand for emergency care. For this reason, we are working to expand the number of professionals working as soon as possible”, said the secretary.
Professionals
The professionals approved in the Foundation's latest competition will be divided into categories: doctor; social worker; biologist; Work safety engineer; nuclear physicist; dentist; pharmaceutical; speech therapist; nutritionist; psychologist; pharmacy technician; laboratory technician; nurse; oral health technician and nursing technician.
They will be distributed in the following units: Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti Institute of Hematology (Hemorio); Luiz Capriglione State Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology; State Transplant Program; Carlos Chagas State Hospital; State Institute of Sanitary Dermatology; Santa Maria State Hospital; Noel Nutels Central Laboratory; São Sebastião State Institute of Infectious Diseases; Eduardo Rabello State Hospital. Rio de Janeiro Psychiatric Center; State Institute of Cardiology Aloysio De Castro and State Institute of Chest Diseases Ary Parreiras;
Current situation in Brazil
The number of deaths from coronavirus in Brazil has risen to 111, the Ministry of Health reported today. As of Saturday afternoon, the country has 3,904 official cases of the disease. Since yesterday, 19 new deaths and 487 new cases of covid-19 have been recorded. Today alone, three people died.
Yesterday, 503 more cases had been confirmed. As a result, today's data represents the second largest increase in confirmed cases from one day to the next since the Ministry of Health began counting covid-19 infections.
