Educação hospitalar/domiciliar no município de Juiz de Fora-Minas Gerais

Abstract

Both health and education are rights ensured by the Brazilian Federal Constitution (BRASIL, 1988) to all its citizens. As such, the hospitalized child has, according to the resolution number 41/95 (Brasil, 1995, p. 1), the right to receive “some form of recreation, health education programs, monitoring of school curriculum, during hospital stay”. Therefore, the present study has as a goal to analyze the hospital and domiciliary school assistance offered by the Secretariat of Education of Juiz de For a (SE/JF) to children and adolescents of the municipal network who are hospitalized or unable to attend school regularly due to diseases. The research was conducted by means of interviews with professionals from the sectors of Attention Supervision to Education in Diversity (SAEDI), Supervision of Inter-sectorial Articulation (SAI), Specialized Center of Attention to the School Child (NEACE), Guardianship Council, telephone contact with public hospitals of Juiz de Fora to identify the existence of such type of assistance, besides a comparative analysis of the experience of Hospital Classes (CHs) in Rio de Janeiro, Distrito Federal, Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte. By means of this study we were able to identify that, in Juiz de Fora, the SE/JF offers domiciliary assistance to special needs children, however, hospitalized assistance is not systematized. Thus, we have proposed a project to implement the CHs in Juiz de Fora aiming at guaranteeing these children and adolescents the right to education also in such phases of their lives. The implementation of the project will be of the responsibility of the SE/JF partnering with the Secretariat of Health by means of a mutual cooperation agreement. The development of the project must consider the articulation with sectors of municipal administration such as the NEACEs, the Department of Formation Policies, schools as well as hospitals. Universality, inclusion, integrality, individuality, flexibility and interdisciplinarity are the guiding principles of this project. Its financing will fall to the SE/JF itself, by means of the Fund to Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and the Valorization of Education Professionals (FUNDEB), of the National Fund to Education Development (FNDE). The expected results with the implementation of the CHs besides guaranteeing the right to education and health to such children are: diminishing the possibilities of school grade repetition and evasion, favoring the reintegration of the child in the school environment after discharge and contributing to the restoring of the health of such children and adolescents.