foodborne illnesses; public health; epidemiological surveillance system; epidemiological interventions; measures for epidemiological improvements

Seguimiento a la vigilancia epidemiológica de brotes de enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos en Pereira de 2018 a 2021.

This article aims to present the results on the monitoring of the epidemiological survei-llance process of outbreaks of foodborne diseases (FBD) in Pereira from 2018-2021. It corresponds to a quantitative, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, whose population and sample is all the cases of FBD reported to the Epidemiological Survei-llance System (SIVIGILA) in Pereira in the aforementioned period of time. As results, it was found that, from 2018-2021, a total of five outbreaks of ETA occurred, where two outbreaks were in 2021 and three in 2019, occurring in Comfamiliar, Institución Educativa Canceles, Cárcel La 40, military forces and public force. In general, a total of 275 (65%) affected people were reported, whose monitoring and scope of inter-ventions and measures for epidemiological improvements are limited as they do not reflect compliance with the protocols established by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the Institute National Health Service (INS). In conclusion, as a point of improvement, it is planned to establish a largely structured FBD surveillance system, which makes it possible to timely detect cases, identify their association with outbreaks, their unexpected appearance, while configuring and characterizing outbreaks. of ETAs in a timely manner in any context, but, in addition, the improvement in the monitoring of these cases must start from a preventive/corrective quality approach with risk ma-nagement, protective and improvement actions.