Unidade De Pronto Atendimento
Unidade de Pronto Atendimento (English language, English: Emergency Care Unit), abbreviated as UPA or UPA 24h, is a type of health center that can be found in many cities in Brazil. They are responsible for providing medium complexity health care, forming a network organized in conjunction with primary care and hospital care. The units also have the purpose of reducing the queues in hospital Emergency department, emergency rooms, avoiding that less complex cases are transferred directly to the hospitals, as well as increasing the service capacity of the Sistema Único de Saúde, Unified Health System (SUS). Function The UPAs work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, aiming to welcome and serve all users who seek medical assistance. They are also capable of solving a large part of the urgencies and emergencies; in the areas that have at least one unit, about 97% of the cases are solved on site. When a patient arrives at a UPA, the doctors provide help, control the problem, and deta ...
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