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Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública
Print version ISSN 0120-386XOn-line version ISSN 2256-3334
Abstract
MOGLIA, Brenda and SY, Anahi. Chronic disease care during the covid-19 pandemic. An analysis of the narratives of public hospital workers in the Buenos Aires suburbs (Argentina). Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública [online]. 2023, vol.41, n.1, e05. Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 0120-386X. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rfnsp.e349651.
Objective:
To analyze the narratives of those who work in public hospitals in the Buenos Aires suburbs, about their experiences in the care and care of people living with a chronic non-communicable disease, focusing on the difficulties and obstacles that emerge in the context of covid-19 pandemic.
Methodology:
13 in-depth interviews were conducted during the months of May and August 2021, using a script of questions/topics and virtually. In the analysis, we started from the narrative approach to reconstruct the way in which the actors produce, represent and contextualize their experiences.
Results:
On the one hand, temporary obstacles were defined, such as the fear of people with this type of disease to go out and go to a hospital, the closure of outpatient clinics and the concentration of workers and workers, and resources for the care of the covid-19 pandemic; on the other, structural problems -promoted by the epidemic-, such as the intermittent availability of medication, the difficulties of articulating with other institutions/levels of care, the access or not of patients to public transport and their possibility or not of paying for other transport.
Conclusion:
During the pandemic, the work was focused, both materially and symbolically, on the containment of covid-19 cases. Follow-up, diagnosis and care of chronic non-communicable diseases were postponed. The current challenge is to attend to the new socioepidemiological reality that is configured when the sars-Cov-2 virus decreases its circulation and severity.
Keywords : Buenos Aires (Argentina); COVID-19; chronic disease; narration; health personnel; pandemic.