The Senate of Brazil approved the basic text of a provisional measure that resumes the government program More Doctors in the South American country, legislative sources reported on networks.
“We approved in the Senate the basic text of the MP that resumes the Mais Médicos program. It is the return of the commitment to life, it is a victory for the Unified Health System (SUS) and for the Brazilian people, who will have medical care in all the municipalities of the country. "It means recognizing health as a fundamental right for everyone!" Senator Randolfe Rodrigues, leader of the Lula Government in the National Congress, said on Twitter this Tuesday.
The measure allows contract extensions and creates incentive compensation for the exercise of the activity in areas that are difficult to fix, in addition to guaranteeing the training of specialists in family and community medicine, noted a report this Tuesday in the official page of the Brazilian Senate.
They also said that the objective of the measure is to reduce the shortage of primary care professionals in priority regions for SUS.
According to the government, the financial impact of the project will be R$712.5 million in 2023 and close to R$ three billion for the coming years, resources that must come from the budget of the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
In March of this year, it was announced that the current government of Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva would resume this program, but to give priority to national specialists and encourage work in the most remote municipalities.
Paulo Pimienta, chief minister of the Ministry of Social Communication of the presidency, assured on that occasion that “with the resumption of More Doctors, specialized professionals in various areas will be incorporated to expand services to the population, with incentives to remain in the municipalities. In addition, it will have priority for Brazilian doctors."
Pimienta argued that the government will improve the Unified Health System (SUS) with investments in the construction and renovation of basic units, as well as an expansion of services throughout Brazil.
"The dismantling of the program in recent years shows the abandonment suffered by the SUS," he noted.
The Brazilian government announced in January that they would resume the medical program, but the priority would be the specialists from that country, thereforeor it was planned to repeat the same form of cooperation with Cuba.
Lula da Silva promised to offer work to the Cuban doctors who stayed in Brazil, however, a specialist said that access was not easy.
Yoandris Sánchez Sánchez, a specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine, recounted the bureaucratic obstacles imposed by the Brazilian government to prevent him from accessing the registration system, and suspects that there may be some influence on the part of the Cuban regime.
"I consider it absurd and a lack of respect and ethics that the Cuban government - despite one being living abroad - continues with the yoke on us," he wrote.
During the government of the former president Dilma Rousseff, Más Médicos was responsible for primary care in 1,039 municipalities, had more than 18 thousand professionals and some 63 million citizens benefited, according to official data.
Organizations like Cuba Archive presented complaints to international organizations accusing the communist regime of practicing human trafficking and obtaining economic benefits by renting its doctors to whom it pays only a part of the agreed salaries.
In February, the Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Rio de Janeiro (CREMERJ) filed a public civil action to try to prevent Cuban specialists from being hired without revalidation and thus prevent doctors from returning without registration in the Brazilian system.
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