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Revista Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e Familiar
Print version ISSN 2182-5173
Abstract
AIRES, Ana and OLIVEIRA, Cátia Almeida. After the storm… A report of a pandemic period by COVID-19. Rev Port Med Geral Fam [online]. 2021, vol.37, n.2, pp.178-186. Epub Apr 30, 2021. ISSN 2182-5173. https://doi.org/10.32385/rpmgf.v37i2.12947.
At the end of 2019, the first cases of a respiratory infection caused by a virus appeared in China, which would later be called SARS-CoV-2 by its homology to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). The disease was called COVID-19 (‘COronaVirus Disease identified in 2019’), with nearly 80% of infected patients only presenting with mild or no symptoms. However, due to its infectiousness, the disease quickly spread to all continents, with an overall mortality of up to 5%.
Thus, given the exponential increase in the number of patients with COVID-19 worldwide, in March 2020 the pandemic level was decreed, at the same time Portugal registered its first cases. Due to the unpredictability and infectiousness of the disease, the political and health authorities of our country were obliged to implement several measures, including a sanitary fence around Ovar after the presence of active community transmission.
This practice report aims to reflect on the clinical practice in a pandemic period by COVID-19. It is a first-person report of two-family medicine residents from a Primary Care Unit in the area of Ovar with the intention, in some way, of shaping what was their activity during this period, in which most of the contacts took place indirectly. With this publication, it is expected to think about the difficulties experienced and the effort made by health professionals, like so many other health units in Portugal, in order to promote the maintenance of health, prevention, and disease management in the community, in which the problems, related or not to COVID-19, had a prominent place at a time when the pandemic was apparently the priority.
Keywords : COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Primary health care; Portugal.
