Para adiar o fim do SUS: estórias de mulheres em (trans)formação na saúde coletiva aracajuana

Abstract

The woman, materialized and reified as an educator and caregiver, is the basic substrate on which the patriarchal, colonial, capitalist, modern plot is built. In the Unified Health System (SUS), through the SUS and with the SUS, women dwell on the words woman and care, problematizing them in the inseparability between health production and subjectivity. Considering that women account for 74% of the SUS workforce, we heard stories of women in and from the SUS Aracaju in their leading roles in health production and in reinventing themselves, even as women caregivers. Considering that the undergraduate courses tends not to prepare professionals for the SUS, we learn from these women's stories the importance of reducing distances between the academy and the daily routine of services through Permanent Education in Health (EPS), a political-pedagogical strategy that aims, in action, to transform professional practices, making health through the production of co-managed networks of analysis and negotiation. This work thus seeks to map the paths taken by women workers of the SUS Aracaju. Their memories, collected in conversation circles, speak of the dangers of forgetting the social struggles that came before and produced a health system for each and every one of the losses of dismantling Permanent Education, of the precariousness of work processes as neoliberal bio necropolitical strategies for destroying the SUS as a public and collective policy. To postpone the end of the SUS, we tell stories as modes of resistance, stories of health care and management produced in the daily routine of services, including and tensioning different knowledge and ways of doing, in a political-educational work that constitutes a territory of common struggle for the lives of each and every Brazilian woman. Being and working in the SUS for these women means constantly inventing themselves and the world, broadening their perspective, understanding that producing health involves looking into the eyes of Brazilian social inequalities, in a transdisciplinary attitude that produces openness to new sensibilities.