Mutirão offers free consultations and minor surgeries in Alenquer from this Sunday, 8

Residents of Alenquer, in the west of Pará, will have access to free medical consultations and minor surgeries starting this Sunday (8). The services will continue until November 14th and will be carried out by a team of doctors and medical students from Paraná.

The initiative is organized by the NGO Amazônia Canaã, in partnership with the City of Alenquer, and has the participation of professionals and academics from the Centro Universitário Integrado de Campo Mourão (PR), through the Humanika Project.

The forecast is to carry out around 1,200 consultations and 50 small surgical procedures. Among the surgeries planned are vasectomies, removal of hernias and lipomas, as well as drainage of sebaceous cysts.

To receive assistance, residents must go to the location of the action, which will still be announced by the city hall, bringing a personal document. Services will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Team of experts

The delegation is made up of two obstetrician gynecologists, a urologist, an anesthesiologist, a pediatrician, a general practitioner and two surgeons, one a proctologist and the other a specialist in the digestive system.

To perform the procedures, volunteers carried approximately 670 kilos of surgical materials and medications, including painkillers, anti-inflammatories and antibiotics.

The materials were collected through campaigns in Campo Mourão businesses, contributions from the community and the educational institution, as well as donations from clinics, hospitals and doctors.

The city hall will be responsible for the team's ground transportation, food for the volunteers, publicizing the action and providing the structure of public health units.

The project has already provided more than 3,500 services

The expedition is part of work developed by the Humanika Project, which since 2022 has been carrying out health actions in communities in Pará and Paraná.

According to the organization, approximately 150 professionals and academics have already participated in the missions. Over this period, more than 3,500 consultations were carried out, 700 minor surgeries were performed and more than 13,000 medicines were distributed.

In Pará, the actions have already taken place in municipalities and communities such as Prainha, Boa Vista do Cuçari, Itamucuri, Aveiro, Santa Cruz, Brasília Legal, Fordlândia and Alter do Chão.

The president of the project, Larissa Leoni, an 11th period Medicine student, highlights that the experience also contributes to the training of academics.

According to her, contact with different realities allows us to understand the difficulties in accessing healthcare and develop skills such as empathy, teamwork and social responsibility.

Urologist and professor Eufanio Saqueti, creator of the expedition, explains that many people served by the teams have never had access to a medical appointment or face difficulties in reaching health services.

The team started the trip from Campo Mourão on November 6th, traveling by bus to São Paulo, flying to Santarém and, later, traveling by boat to Alenquer. The work ends on the 14th, with a return scheduled for the 15th.