A Chamber of Deputies approved, this Monday 9th, a bill that establishes guidelines for the Unified Health System to provide care and treatment for people with Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. The matter will be sent to the Senate.
The rapporteur, Josenildo (PDT-AP), noted that the disease mainly affects women between 35 and 55 years old.
“Fibromyalgia is not yet considered a disability, causing difficulties in obtaining benefits. There is no cure, but treatment is crucial to control symptoms, improving quality of life”, said the pediatrician. The text foresees the need for biopsychosocial assessment so that someone with these diseases can be equated with a person with a disability.
This assessment must come from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team and consider impediments to body functions and structures, socio-environmental, psychological and personal factors, limitations in the performance of activities and restrictions on full and effective participation in society under equal conditions. with other people.
For care, access to complementary exams, pharmaceutical assistance and access to therapeutic modalities (physiotherapy and physical activity, for example), the project sets guidelines such as community participation in its implementation and encouraging the insertion of people with one of these diseases into the job market. .
There should also be incentives for the training and training of professionals specialized in caring for people and their families and encouragement for scientific research through epidemiological studies to assess the magnitude and characteristics of these diseases in Brazil.
(With information from Agência Câmara)
