Professionals will begin 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 4, professionals hired by the Rio de Janeiro State Health Department (SES) will begin working in the health network. The vacancies will be distributed across 12 units, all managed by the Health Foundation.
There will be biologists, doctors, nurses, nursing technicians and pharmacists, as well as other hires to provide support in the state's care units.
Edmar Santos, Secretary of State for Health, the faster the professionals are hired, the better to meet the need to care for a greater number of patients with covid-19.
“We are going through an exceptional time. 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 division of professionals approved in the Foundation's last competition will be done into categories: doctor; social worker; biologist; occupational safety engineer; nuclear physicist; dentist; pharmacist; 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 Hematology Institute (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 Infectology; Eduardo Rabello State Hospital. Rio de Janeiro Psychiatric Center; Aloysio De Castro State Institute of Cardiology and Ary Parreiras State Institute of Chest Diseases;
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 have died.
Yesterday, 503 more cases were 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.