Acolhimento de saúde ao refugiado venezuelano no Brasil : a importância da barreira sanitária na prevenção de doenças trazidas por refugiados na fronteira Brasil -Venezuela

Abstract

The socioeconomic crisis in the Neighboring Country Venezuela is promoting a large migration of its citizens to neighboring countries. Brazil, as a country that has a dry border and paved roads with Venezuela, has received a large number of migrants requesting refugee status. In this context, many Venezuelans are looking to restart their lives in another country, including a new life in Brazil. Mass migration brings difficulties for the receiving country, triggering all sorts of problems, whether in competition with Brazilians for medical care, an increase in local crime and even transnational crimes. In the wake of mass migration, where the State of origin collapsed, the refugee carries diseases of all kinds, for lack of prevention or not meeting their basic needs as a human being. Brazil, through “Operação Acolhida”, opted for the organization of its northern border in order to organize the reception of asylum seekers, following the precepts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The unique health system in Brazil is a broad and unrestricted system that, according to the Federal Constitution in its art.5, allows full care to foreigners on an equal basis with the national one, which is one of the reasons for the great search for refuge in Brazil. We will shed light on the health situation in Venezuela and its consequences, from the border to the interior, suggesting public health policies in order to create efficient sanitary barriers for the biological protection of the Brazilian population at the border and in cities where migrants were interiorized