Avaliação do armazenamento e conservação de imunobiológicos em Unidades Básicas de Saúde.

Abstract

Immumzation is a process essential for the prevention o f various diseases in children, adults and seniors. For over 100 years the vaccine has been important to public health, prevent reaching about three million deaths per year worldwide. The impact of this action has significantly reduced morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases. The National Immunization-PNI was incorporated into routine health services and its mission is to organize these actions. This study proposed as main objective to verify the conditions o f storage and conservation o f biological in Basic Health Units in the municipality o f Cajazeiras, Paraiba. And specific objectives describe the conditions o f storage and preservation of the immune UBS Cajazeiras; investigate the applicability o f the standards advocated by the PNI in UBS. This is a study of normative evaluation, exploratory descriptive quantitative approach. We visited 10 rooms vaccination operation for the period o f data collection, ie, in the course o f two weeks during the month o f March 2013. Data were analyzed by observing the following variables: condition refrigerator, internal organization o f the refrigerator, cooler and control of the cold chain. It can be observed that although 90% o f the refrigerator being in ideal state o f preservation and operation, some did not provide the third shelf or non perforated trays for the immunobiological acondicionarem, thus impeding the organization and the lot number and expiration products , the lack of monitoring and the lack of a maximum and minimum thermometer in coolers in 100% o f the rooms, i t was also observed that 40% o f the rooms are not properly vaccination daily monitoring o f refrigerator temperature, only 50% performed the Defrost and clean the refrigerator when ice thickness reaches the recommended limit, and there is no preventive maintenance program and / oucorretiva for cooler rooms in any o f the vaccine. Thus, we can conclude that the rooms vaccine municipality under study are not complying with the requirements proposed by PNI for cold chain, thus endangering the preservation and proper storage o f biological available.