Hospital Araújo Jorge : humanização e a (re)significação do lugar pelo paciente migrante transplantado

Abstract

The Hospital Araújo Jorge, local of our investigation, is the largest operational unit of the Associação de Combate ao Câncer em Goiás (ACCG). Therefore, it is amongst one of the important regional and national reference in the process of prevention, diagnosis and cure, making up a historical period of 62 years of fighting cancer. The present research from the point of view on human sciences involves: cancer, the migrant patient, Hospital Araújo Jorge (HAJ) and the process of humanization in the hospital environment. Since there is an intense migratory flow in search of health treatment, the focus of study is based on the hospital, the place, the patient and the reestablishment of his health as central points of investigation. In view of the diversity of oncology patients being treated at Hospital Araújo Jorge, the research will prioritize quantitatively and qualitatively the migrant patients who have undergone bone marrow transplantation, because it is a state of high vulnerability. The components stages of the study object were guided by the process of allowing the hospital history to be revisited, the health migrant context and the challenges of humanized treatment in an interaction between managers, health professionals and users. Therefore, the systematic analysis of the principles and objectives established by the public policy of the Programa Nacional de Humanização da Assistência Hospitalar (PNHAH), as well as the Política Nacional de Humanização (PNH), essentially related to the Hospital, makes it possible to envisage the materialization of an ethical and humanized organizational culture, fundamental for the achievement of a greater good: the public health. Also, the applicability of such humanization policies within the Hospital Araújo Jorge and the work of patient care, the activities and projects developed there, the cancer patient support groups and the existential crisis (place and non-place) of the transplanted. The understanding of the place / house and place / hospital, between the physical and the symbolic and the possible existential crisis of the health migrant, since it is from the feeling of alterity towards the transplanted migrant patient that the process of (re) signification and humanization takes place.