O Serviço Social na captação de doadores voluntários de sangue: exercício profissional em um hospital universitário

Abstract

This document is intended to introduce the reader to the materialization of the work process developed as an intern in Social Service of Hemotherapy Service of University Hospital of Santa Maria, RS. This experience allowed closer approach to health policy, through historical recovery and social and political developments that led to the creation of a Unified Health System. The SUS, contemplated in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, was legally supported by two legislation which provide for the promotion, protection and recovery of health, as well as social participation in its management. The Federal Constitution was also a reference for hemoterapic activity in the country, establishing the conditions and requirements for collection, processing and blood transfusion, prohibiting all kinds of commercialization, subsequently regulated by specific laws. One of the main activities undertaken by social worker in the Transfusion Service of HUSM is the uptake of blood donors, asked users themselves and their families, to make stable and sufficient the stock of hemocomponents, contemplating the needs of hospital. The blood donation, on a voluntary basis, is still little practiced by population. What keeps inventory of blood products are replacement donations and campaigns. In front of this reality, the proposed intervention elaborated was a criation of a campaign, titled “Sou Universitário, Doador Voluntário” (I am college student, I am volunteer donor), with the main objective of increasing the number of voluntary blood donors, sensitizing students of the Federal University of Santa Maria.