Galicia’s hepatitis C elimination plan is a ‘world benchmark’

doctors Juan Ternes and Pablo Parada, Doctors from the Dixestivo Aparello Service Center of the University General Hospital Pontevedra (CHUP) shared with national and international colleagues Details of Galicia’s Hepatitis C Elimination Plan, and the experience of the health districts of Pontevedra and Osalnes in managing this virus.

I don’t mark “The 8th National Viral Hepatitis Conference”, “The 16th National Viral Hepatitis and Other International Symposium” and “Fast Track City” Conference, They discussed the specificities of the Ministry of Health’s FOCUS project, which was originally developed in Pontevedra, and its unnamed participation in the Galicia program, considered one of the world’s leading projects due to its technological commitments Two of the most ambitious plans in the world.

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i was evicted Named the best hepatitis C unit in Spain for three consecutive years We won the Best in Class award, the first to be implemented in May, or Age-opportunistic screening for hepatitis C concurrently in hospital care and primary care. From this success, every time people between 50 and 59 years old were analyzed, they were automatically asked if they could come in without screening, and data was obtained without a set of health areas, which was 63,000 people who accepted and 83 positive cases.

CHUP Dixestivo Service Owner and Document Co-Author or Author Juan Ternesmentioned in a meeting Implementation of Galicia’s hepatitis C elimination program considered a ‘success’, “In a matter of months, all Galician regions have been operational or screened by entities, a system that is difficult to replicate in our countries or communities because We in Galicia have strong digital capabilities”.

Ternes said the meeting that people are interested in “isn’t the number of cases; We are the only company in the world using PCR through pooling Diagnostic testing at scale at reduced cost, here’s what we’ve learned from the pandemic.

The service manager also emphasized Technical capabilities to implement application systems, Automated identification of target populations within personal health and hospital systems.

This feeling or the screening of Galicia will provide basic information for estimating the incidence of this virus in other parts of Spain, which is the key data to be processed asymptomatic disease, It is understood that 25% of undiagnosed patients suffer from curly hair.

Some of the actions envisaged in the Galician Strategy have been previously implemented as pilot projects in the health sector, with particular emphasis on Use technology to proactively find patients Because of their diagnosis, they received no treatment.

Pola súa banda,o doutor Pablo Parada, Doctors serving the Dixestivo University Hospital Complex in Pontevedra explain the framework of the Fast Track Urban Meeting as focus items, We coordinated with the Ministry of Health to start implementation in the region in 2019 Use artificial intelligence and big data to detect these patients.

As Parada explains, the project says “Eat a A pilot project is launched in our health sector and once the results are known we decide to expand it through the Galician Hepatitis C Elimination Program

“With this new technology, we use technology to detect patients in the database, which is possible because in Galicia this information is digital and unified.”

Due to this set of factors in the Health District of Pontevedra and Osalnes, acceptance is encouraged Participants were not screened for virus testing, The disease is curable in almost all cases, and treatment is rapid and has significant side effects.

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