Quantidade de casos de Hanseníase notificados no ano de 2011 no município de Trindade – GO e conduta dos enfermeiros dos ESF’s com pacientes infectados.

Abstract

Hansen better known as leprosy in ancient times is an infectious disease that caused a great impact and prejudice in society, where the leper was connected to an image of legends and jokes. Why not have the specific treatment occurred numerous deaths and psychological, over the years there was a change in the concept of disease by providing appropriate treatment to those infected. In Brazil and the world leprosy is considered a significant public health problem causing an impact of actions that have favorable conditions to eliminate the problem although achieving this goal requires efforts from the public and private sectors, thereby achieving a lower prevalence rate for every 10 000 inhabitants. Analyzing the number of new cases and the number of cases that the year 2011 was closed, our goal was to observe the incidence of leprosy in the municipality of Trinidad - GO and conduct of nurses to receive and treat those infected patients. As the search for qualitative and quantitative, approach a bibliographic study and a field research, where we had access to documents stored in epidemiological surveillance, and a questionnaire asking closed with the objective of the ESF's nurses.Yet despite the strong commitment of health professionals for elimination of leprosy is the state of Goiás with high rates of infection, and the city of Trinidad - GO hyperendemic with a coefficient of 4.75 for every 10 000 inhabitants.The purpose of the research and strengthen important to know the signs and symptoms, treatment, contributing to the knowledge of the population, pointing out the consequences that can occur by not treating properly.