Desafios dos transplantes frente a pandemia no Brasil

Abstract

In December 2019, the first cases of pneumonia of origin unknown have been identified in China. It was later discovered to be a infection with a new strain of Coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2. Initially, infection of the virus was responsible for the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring public health emergency of international importance and subsequently raised the disease to pandemic status. (MENDES et al., 2021) Despite the daily challenge that healthcare institutions already face, the impact political-social-economic that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic brought to the whole world, It completely affected hospitals and their entire sphere. And several difficulties came to donation-transplant process. (MENDES et al., 2021)