The Nicaraguan Ministry of Health has taken an important step in addressing the prevention of Cervical Cancer and the early detection of Breast Cancer throughout the republic by implementing the Surveillance System for the Prevention of Women’s Cancer, known for its initials as SIVIPCAN. The Sivipcan constitutes a proposal for improvement in the management of information on the two main neoplasms that affect women in Nicaragua (Cervix and breasts). As of July 1 of this year, all health regions of the country will be using this management tool in the prevention of Cervical Cancer (CCU).
Sivipcan is a software, developed by Nicaraguan talent that constitutes a virtual surveillance system for precursor lesions of cervical and breast cancer. It allows managing information on users of the Public Health System (nominal registry) and promotes data analysis for planning and monitoring indicators of structure, processes and results from Primary Health Care (PHC).
The Ministry of Health asked the Movicáncer-Nicaragua Foundation to speed up the transfer process for the local implementation of the software in 14 of the 18 health regions of the country. Already in the 2008-2012 period, Sivipcan had been implemented as a pilot in the health regions of: Jinotega, Río San Juan, the RAAS and the RAAN. After an evaluation of its performance, it has been considered necessary to complete the implementation process at the national level.
This means that as of July 1 of this year, the entire country will be linked to a single management computer model for the prevention of cervical cancer.
The Sivipcan (developed since 2007) is the product of the identification of limitations and a proposal by Movicáncer as a partner of MINSA that proposed an ambitious change from the traditional management model to a digitized system of the national cervical cancer prevention program in the country. It should be noted that Sivipcan has received recognition as “Latin Excellence” by the American Cancer Society in 2008 and three years later (2011) it has been ranked among the three best innovations in America in the category of Science and Technology by the Innovative Organization of America based in the Dominican Republic.
Silais, with its implementation, the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua demonstrates the political will to work together for the common good of Nicaraguans, and constitutes an excellent proposal for improvement in the management of information on the two main neoplasms that affect Nicaraguans. Central American and Caribbean women faced with the challenge posed in the Declaration of Antigua Guatemala made by the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America and the Dominican Republic called “United Against the Epidemic of Noncommunicable Diseases in Central America and the DR” made in 2011 , said Prof. Juan Almendárez, general director of the Movicancer-Nicaragua Foundation.
Along with the implementation of Sivipcan, RegCan4 (IARC) is being installed in hospitals where various types of cancer are being treated with the support of PAHO for training at the national level.
While we work to put it online (since the beginning of this year 2013), from now on, Sivipcan will be working at the First Level of Care and RegCan4 for the second and third levels in Nicaragua, thus improving the information and case monitoring system†, explains Orlando B. Martínez Granera of the Movicáncer-Nicaragua Executive Sub-Directorate.
There is still much to be done in order to consolidate what has been achieved, but it is surely an important step for this Central American country, the second poorest in Latin America, which, on its own initiative, has advanced to stop the heavy burden that Cervical Cancer represents. and Breasts in Nicaragua.
