Evaluación de la aplicación del reglamento para regular los servicios de salud que realizan procedimientos quirúrgicos con fines estéticos en hospitales de la provincia de Guayas y El Oro.

Abstract

This research deals with the evaluation of the application of the regulation to regulate health services that perform surgical procedures for aesthetic purposes in hospitals in the province of Guayas and El Oro, by means of a validated instrument. For the modification approach, several documents were investigated, as well as a whole series of competent regulations, which regulate the actions in health services and the correct application. Eighteen professionals, including jurists, surgeons, representatives of the Ministry of Health, as well as testimonies of affected persons, participated in the study. Descriptive explanatory research was used, resulting in 70% of the interviewees referring to the application of a new regulation, as well as having a low level of perception with respect to evaluating the capacity to respond to exogenous events in esthetic procedures. Concluding that it is necessary and important to evaluate the ministerial agreement in force and guarantee the patient's rights, proposing to send to the Ministry of Public Health the reform to article 3, of the ministerial agreement no. 0001- 2017 as well as to article 25, of the ministerial agreement no. 00030-2020, where the requirements of protection to annex to basic hospital covered in the modality of internment/hospitalization are stated, as well as the typology of hospital specialized in aesthetic surgery where only surgical procedures are performed for aesthetic purposes.