Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba, Piracicaba, SP, Brasil.
Universidade José do Rosário Vellano, Centro de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais, Alfenas, MG, Brasil.
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2021 Jul 23;54:e02512021. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0251-2021. eCollection 2021.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has limited the access of patients with Hansen's disease (HD) to care due to changes in routine health services.
To ascertain this, we compared the number of HD cases diagnosed before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The decrease in HD cases in Brazil reached 18,223 (-48.4%), corresponding to an average reduction of 1,518 cases per month during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Therefore, effective measures should be implemented to minimize the damage and the consequent negative health impact of COVID-19 on the care of HD patients.
由于常规卫生服务的改变，2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）限制了麻风病（HD）患者获得治疗的机会。
为了确定这一点，我们比较了 COVID-19 大流行前后诊断的 HD 病例数量。
巴西的 HD 病例数减少了 18223 例（-48.4%），相当于 COVID-19 大流行期间每月减少 1518 例。
因此，应采取有效措施，尽量减少 COVID-19 对 HD 患者护理的损害和由此产生的负面健康影响。
