A atuação em Saúde Mental e Atenção Psicossocial em um desastre da mineração em Mariana (MG): um relato de experiência

Abstract

Tis experience report aims to discuss the context and activities developed in the feld of Mental Health and Psychosocial Care, in the municipality of Mariana (MG), since the mining tailings dam’s disaster at Samarco / Vale / BHP Billiton in 2015. For this, memories of the knowledge constructed with mental health workers and researchers in the afected territory were activated and in contact with directly afected population and other health care servers. Afer the immediate and urgent psychosocial care, it was possible to establish an Action Plan involving the entire Psychosocial Care Network of Mariana, which brought about the creation of a team focused on the psychosocial needs of the population directly afected in its scope. Te discussion involved the challenges of this establishment within Brazil’s Unifed Health System, aligned to the specifc demands of this vulnerable population and how the disaster, understood as an ongoing process, continues to infuence the daily lives of afected people and the dynamics of the territory. Te conclusion showed the need for practices oriented by the dynamics and realities of the afected communities, emphasizing the potential of mental health care built in the territory and in dialogue with the right to health and citizenship.