Gestão pública municipal no enfrentamento da pandemia de COVID-19: a experiência de São Luiz Gonzaga - RS

Abstract

Knowing that the pandemic has affected public and private health systems, undone economic relationships, and given rise to public debates regarding how to deal with them, managers are challenged to act with agility and in the most appropriate way possible to contain the advance of the COVID-19 disease. 19. The present work aims to analyze the actions taken by the municipal public management of São Luiz Gonzaga - RS in the face of the Covid-19 Pandemic. For this, an analytical empirical research was carried out, based on description and analysis, with a quali-quantitative approach, with data collection through the website of the municipal government of São Luiz Gonzaga, and the website of its local radios. The municipal decrees published from the beginning of the pandemic until July 2021, the date of completion of the project that submitted to the bank for approval and execution, were presented. The actions taken by the municipal public management to face the pandemic were identified, the main ones being in terms of inspection, preparation of hospitals to receive patients, notifications to those who did not comply with the decreed norms, publications of epidemiological bulletins for monitoring and application of the Regional protocol approved by the Covid Region. From the actions taken by the public administration, in the fight against the pandemic, a high rate of recovered from the disease (97.09%) and a low rate of deaths (2.43%) was obtained, in relation to the cases reported in the city. The rate of vaccinated, considering that vaccination started in January 2021, was 56.45% of the population with the 1st dose, 29.41% with the second dose (or with the single dose vaccine), with 29,672, the total doses applied in the municipality, from January to July 2021.