Cenário da covid-19 nos municípios paraibano do litoral norte: um estudo comparativo frente aos gastos governamentais

Abstract

The objective of this study was to show the volume of expenses incurred with the COVID-19 by the municipalities of Paraíba on the North Coast, in the years 2020 and 2021. To this end, a descriptive, quantitative and documentary research was carried out with the pandemic of data capture from the transparency portals of the municipalities, of the referred years, since in that period the World Health Organization disclosed that the world was facing a pandemic scenario. From this, and bringing it to the study, the municipalities began to bear different volumes of expenses in the face of a new disease spread in the population. Therefore, the results of the study revealed that comparing the years 2020 and 2021, the municipalities of Cuité de Mamanguape, Curral de Cima, Jacaraú, Mamanguape, Marcação and Pedro Régis had, in general, their expenses reduced from one year to the next. another with COVID-19, while no number of cases and deaths in the same period and in these same municipalities increased. With regard to the financial transfer of emergency aid (resources) to the municipalities served, Baía da Traição, Cuité de Mamanguape, Curral de Cima, Jacaraú, Marcação, Mataraca and Pedro Régis had a greater variation in their revenues for the year 2020 for 2021, knowing that the distribution of these values ​​was carried out, in general, taking into account the ICU bed/inhabitant. In this regard, it can be said that these values ​​are inversely proportional, as these municipalities had an increase in revenue and a reduction in expenditure. It is worth noting that all requested data were collected from the municipalities' transparency portals, and it was found that they are strictly complying with the Complementary Transparency Law (Law No. 131/2009). Finally, this research contributes to the transparency of information on resources and public expenditures in these municipalities, in a scenario of health and medical challenges faced in Brazil.