Adaptations in a basic health unit during the COVID-19 pandemic: experience report

Abstract

The SARS-COV-2 pandemic has brought the need of social distance maintaining all over the world, and health services had to adapt to this reality. To achieve the Primary Health Care's essential attributes all PHC units had to reorganize their structure and working process, considering their local context, to reassure healthcare not only to the Covid-19 victims, but to every patient, while minimizing transmission between professionals and patients. This report aims to describe what UBS 7, a PHC unit in Samambaia, Federal District, Brazil had done to achieve these purposes.