VASCONCELOS NETO, Solon de Lira.; NAVARRO, Rômulo Feitosa.; DANTAS, Deborah Rose Galvão.
Résumé:
This study aims to determine the overall prevalence of documented cases of silicosis in the Antônio Bezerra
Cabral Municipal Hospital from Pedra Lavrada, PB in the past five years and also the analysis of records of
deaths of this hospital in the Department of Health. The result of the research presented a live patient, male,
42 years old, known carrier of silicosis about seven years, employed in quarries for 32 years, which
represents a long period of exposure to silica. It was also found two deaths by silicosis, both males, aged
between 50-80 years old, both workers of quarries. From these data, it is concluded that the silicosis remains
a prevalent disease and it generates large costs due to its complications, which is avoidable if there is
preventive actions and projects to raise awareness to the risk of illness by silicosis is reduced or even even
absent.