Hospital Regional de Telêmaco Borba starts care for high-risk pregnant women

The Regional Hospital of Telêmaco Borba – Dr. Victor de Almeida Barbosa (HRTB) began on Tuesday (3) the care of high-risk pregnant women, expanding its scope of care and complexity with the maternal and child care offered by the Unified Health System (SUS) in Campos Gerais. The measure strengthens the regional network and brings the specialized services closer to the population.

On Friday (6), the hospital unit of the State Government, administered by the Secretariat of Health (Sesa) through the State Health Care Foundation of Paraná (Funeas), carried out an act to formalize the start of emergency hospital care, as well as high-risk deliveries, ensuring specialized care to pregnant women who need this support.

The service includes residents of Telêmaco Borba and of the other six municipalities served by the 21st Regional Health: Curiúva, Imbaú, Ortigueira, Reserva, Tibagi and Ventania, as well as patients from other regions referred by the Central of State Regulation, according to the assistance flows.

With the expansion of the scope of care, the expectation is to reduce the need for travel to hospitals in other cities. Until then, pregnant women and puerperal women who needed specialized hospital assistance due to high-risk pregnancies were referred to other reference units, such as the Hospital do Rocio, in Campo Largo, in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba.

For the implementation of the new service, HRTB expanded its medical and care teams and adopted specific care protocols. The structure of the hospital for this care includes Surgical Center, Normal Childbirth Center, Joint Accommodation and ten beds of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), intended for newborns who need specialized care and continuous follow-up, including in situations that require 24-hour assistance.

The Secretary of State for Health, César Neves, spoke about the importance of this new service for pregnant women in the region as a way of expanding the regionalization of health services in the State.

“We are expanding access to specialized care and strengthening the mother-child network of Paraná. With this new service, focused especially on cases of high-risk pregnancy and emergency care, especially in the postpartum period, patients from Telêmaco Borba and other cities in the region now have closer care to their families, reducing the need for displacement and ensuring greater integration between health services,” he said.

PARTNERSHIP FOR RETAGUARD BEDS

The new maternal and child care of HRTB also has ten rear beds in ICUs that were enabled through a partnership between Sesa and Hospital Moura, a private institution located also in Telêmaco Borba and that will offer, through the Unified Health System, complementary support to high-risk pregnant women and postpartum women who need this care.

According to Funeas's director-president, Geraldo Biesek, the implementation of care for high-risk pregnant women in the 21st Regional Health is the result of a work of organization of the hospital structure, expansion of the teams and strengthening of the care services. “The Regional Hospital of Telêmaco Borba advances in the consolidation of the Maternal-Child Line, offering the population a structure prepared to attend to cases that require specialized care,” he said.

SPECIALIZED ACCOMPANYMENT

In addition to hospital care, HRTB maintains an outpatient clinic specialized in high-risk pregnancy that offers first consultations and returns for pregnant women from the municipalities of the 21st Regional Health.

The director of the 21st RS, Roberto Franco, says that this follow-up provides, as a reference, five specialized consultations, with the possibility of adaptation according to the clinical need of each patient. “Care is shared with Primary Health Care, allowing continuity of follow-up in the Basic Health Units of the municipalities of origin.”

The hospital also offers outpatient care for evaluation and preparation of patients who require elective gynaecological surgeries, including consultations with a gynaecologist and anesthesiologist. “This care of pregnant women at usual, intermediate risk and, especially, those at high risk, is in line with the guidelines of Health Care and Surveillance for the strengthening of the Maternal-Child Care Line in Paraná,” explained Maria Goretti David Lopes, director of Health Care and Surveillance at Sesa.

EXTENDED STRUCTURE

The implementation of care for pregnant women at high risk is part of the process of reorganization of the care profile of the Regional Hospital of Telêmaco Borba, which, between January and early November of this year, registered 882 births, 3,735 cares in Pronto Atendimento, 440 outpatient consultations and 120 elective surgical procedures.

Inaugurated in June 2020, initially to serve patients with Covid-19, this hospital unit has gone through different stages of transformation. In 2023, ten beds of Neonatal ICU were implanted, which remain in operation. In January 2026, the hospital began a new stage of organization of the Maternal and Child Care Line, and from August this year it progressed in consolidating the structure and teams necessary to expand obstetric care.

“This new care is part of the consolidation of the regionalization of health in Paraná, one of our strategies to expand the access of the population to specialized services. It is a movement that takes up the original vocation of the Regional Hospital of Telêmaco Borba: care in the maternal-child area. And it creates a well-organized ICU rear in the region,” said César Neves.

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