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Colombia Médica
versión On-line ISSN 1657-9534
Resumen
MATTOS, Amaranto Suarez; AGUILERA, Jairo; SALGUERO, Edgar Augusto y WIESNER, Carolina. Pediatric oncology services in Colombia. Colomb. Med. [online]. 2018, vol.49, n.1, pp.97-101. ISSN 1657-9534. https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v49i1.3377.
In low-income countries, a child diagnosed with cancer has an 80% chance of dying, while in high-income countries more than 80% survive the disease. In Colombia, a middle-income country, the government issued new legislation that promotes the generation of comprehensive care units; nevertheless, seven years after its expedition, no institution has been recognized as such by the Ministry of Health. The objective of this study was to characterize the current offer of oncological services for cancer care in children and to identify the institutions that can be constituted in Units of Comprehensive Care of Childhood Cancer in Colombia.
Methods:
descriptive study of secondary source, the Special Register of Health Providers of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection was consulted, in order to identify the institutions that had enabled hospitalization services of medium or high complexity, chemotherapy, specialized consultation, emergencies, oncological surgery, and radiotherapy or nuclear medicine. The information is reported in absolute frequencies.
Results:
Seventy one institutions have hematology-oncology consultation, 39 institutions have chemotherapy and hospitalization services of medium or high complexity, and 18 have radiotherapy enabled. Only nine of the institutions include all the services that are necessary for comprehensive care.
Conclusion:
Colombia has a sufficient supply of services for the care of children with cancer. Only a minority are in institutions that have the capacity to guarantee the integrality of the attention.
Palabras clave : Medical care; comprehensive; children; cancer; Colombia.
