Lack of employees affects health centers and daycare centers in a city in the interior of SP: 'Account doesn't close'

Lack of employees affects health centers and daycare centers in Araraquara The lack of employees in essential sectors such as health and education has impacted the service provided to the population of Araraquara (SP). In public health, service units face the early closure of pharmacies due to a lack of assistants. In education, lunch ladies and educational agents report work overload and staff shortages. ? Follow g1 São Carlos and Araraquara on Instagram City Hall reported that it had called in 16 lunch ladies and requested hires for pharmacies, but did not give deadlines or the total number of vacancies. For educational agents, it claimed fiscal adjustment restrictions to create positions and did not confirm new competitions. (See the full positioning below). Reduced pharmacy hours at the Doutor José Nigro Neto Family Health Unit, in Araraquara (SP) Ely Venancio/EPTV At the Doutor José Nigro Neto and Vila Santana Family Health Units, patients who need to collect medication in the morning face reduced opening hours. The municipal network has 28 pharmacies that should be open between 7:30 am/8 am and 4 pm. However, nine of them now close to the public at noon for internal services. According to the director of the Health Section, Suely Scodler, pharmacists work from 8am to 2pm and need to carry out bureaucratic tasks. "He will deliver the medication to the patient, he will guide the dosage that he is going to take, he will collect the supplies that they sometimes bring, syringes, these things that diabetics sometimes use at home, he will guide how to take each medicine, how many times a day", he stated. "So they [pharmacists] can't keep the pharmacy open and do the bureaucratic part. So, from 12pm to 2pm, they close the service door and do internal work." More news from the region: FATALITY: 51-year-old woman dies choking on coxinha after a walk in the interior of SP SEARCHES: VIDEO: manager who disappeared after dismissal took the bus to São Paulo, says Civil Police VIOLENCE: 'I lost my family': woman persecuted by her ex-husband had to leave her son and move to another city "The deficit is nine people, nine assistants and three pharmacists. The nine assistants were requested, the pharmacists have not yet been requested. They authorized five and only three have been hired so far. The math doesn't add up", highlighted Suely. In addition to changes in pharmacy opening hours, the shortage of professionals led to the temporary interruption of public service at certain times of the year. Overload in education In the public education network, the volume of work exceeds the number of professionals available. Data from the municipal administration indicate that the network has 283 lunch ladies, 268 of whom are permanent, 11 outsourced and 4 temporary. The certified lunch lady Pâmela Bertin reports that she serves 180 children per period alongside just one colleague. "In theory, there should be an average of 50 children per lunch box, so that we can offer quality meals. [What if one is missing?] The other has to be able to handle it. Or the secretariat requires another lunch lady from another unit and makes up for the shortage in my unit", he stated "We end up not offering the excellence that should be being offered, because we don't have time, we don't have the workforce, there's no way for us to serve the cake, make the drumsticks, do the things they like to eat so much. We do what we can and have given very little." Lack of competition Director of the Union of Municipal Employees (Sismar) of Araraquara, Tatiana Nunes, Ely Venancio/EPTV The director of the Union of Municipal Employees (Sismar), Tatiana Nunes, points out that the deficit in positions occurs due to the absence of a current public competition and questions the use of temporary selection processes. "The deficit is quite large in these two positions because there is no public competition current. The last people who were hired as lunch ladies have already finished, there is no longer anything to call a competition. The city council opened a selection process for lunch attendants, they started hiring, I think it was last Saturday, they started calling, but it takes a long time," he said. "If you go to that unit and you're already a permanent employee, you create a bond, you create a partnership with that team. And if you are selective, you know that you will work for a year, which can be extended for another year, you end up not creating this bond", said Tatiana. See the EPTV2 report in full: Sectors such as health and education suffer from a shortage of employees in Araraquara Overworked servers in daycare centers The shortage of professionals also affects the team of educational agents in daycare centers. Francieli Morales, caregiver for the elderly and mother of two children enrolled at the Professora Anunciata Education and Recreation Center Lia Davi is worried about the situation. "I went to hand my daughter over to the educational team and she was crying because she was so overwhelmed. She would be alone that day, as far as she knew. And there are practically almost 20 children aged 4 months to 1 year for two educational agents in the classroom. And that day one was away. So she was desperate because she didn't know what to do, because she was alone." "Let it be resolved, because not only because of my daughter, but because of the employees. Because if it happens that two educational agencies, which are the only two that have one, fall ill or develop an anxiety attack, panic attack and need to leave, what are we going to do? Aren't you going to have class? We need to work, we parents need to work to put bread in the house", highlighted Francieli. What the city hall says Pharmacies: The city hall informed that it has already requested new hires, but did not specify the number of vacancies nor presented a deadline for filling the positions. Lunch attendants: The administration announced that 16 candidates approved in the selection process were called