“Enough to bring children into the world,” freelancer Maicon Henrique da Silva Pereira, 22, quipped himself. On Saturday morning (17), he was one of the 44 people from Santos who visited the Institute for Women and Pregnant Women for a vasectomy preparatory session. Interested parties who sought the Santos Department of Health unit in Encruzilhada, during the vasectomy campaign, were referred to the procedure to be performed at the Nelson Teixeira Outpatient Specialty Clinic (Ambesp), in Macuco, at an appointment to be determined.
A resident of Chico de Paula, in the Northwest region, Maicon knows he’s making the right decision. He is already the father of two children and the woman, who is also undergoing family planning, is pregnant with the third. “A man who works with my mother had a vasectomy. He said the recovery is very quick.”
Daniela dos Santos López-Humenco, one of the doctors who examined those interested in the procedure, confirms that the period after the vasectomy is very calm, as the patient returns to his normal activities within a few days.
The doctor says that as of March, the new legislation Who deals with vasectomy within the family planning program. Before, the subject had to be at least 25 years old and have two surviving children to undergo the procedure by the Unified Health System (SUS). The new law lowered the minimum age to 21, there was no longer any obligation to have children, and ended the previously mandatory consent of the wife or partner.
The other interested party who went through the combined effort and scheduled a vasectomy was sales representative Diego Holland, 41, who resides in Vila Sao Jorge, Northwest Region. He was inspired by his uncle to undergo the procedure. Diego, a father of three, feels good: “Everyone came home healthy. They are the joy of our lives,” he says. “I’ve talked a lot with my wife. I’ve made up my mind. If I could, I’d have the procedure today.”
