A Future Health Minister Says That He Will Give A "Management Shock" In Rio's Federal Hospitals | Politics

Mandetta will take over the Ministry of Health next week, after the inauguration of Bolsonaro at the head of Plbadto Palace.

The capital of Rio de Janeiro has six federal hospitals: Andaraí, Cardoso Fontes, Servidores do Estado, Ipanema, Lagoa and Bonsucesso. According to Mandetta, these hospitals are experiencing "innumerable problems" and militias have been organizing queues for services. […] These federal hospitals must be integrated, take a management shock, improve the problem of joint purchasing, "said the future minister.

" The Ministry of Health is responsible for administering, managing and provide direct services.

According to Mandetta, the Ministry of Health will conduct reviews and audits of contracts in federal hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, as well as a performance survey, a change of management profile with professionals region, consultancy, transparency and management. information management.

"If the Union does not give the example in its units, how will it charge the other units?", He said.

These measures were presented by Mandetta at this Thursday's meeting (27) of the future ministers of the Bolsonaro government. At the meeting held at the headquarters of the cultural center Banco do Brasil, the future management discussed proposals for the first 100 days of activity.

The priority proposals for each dossier will be presented this weekend to President-elect Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia.

In addition to the intervention in Rio's federal hospitals, Mandetta said that during the early months of the government, the Ministry of Health would focus on vaccinating populations in the northern region.

He claimed that with the Venezuelan migration to the country, measles outbreaks were recorded in Roraima, Amazonas and Pará.

"It is a dramatic fact, which testifies to a great failure of basic attention, The Health Surveillance Zone," said the future Chief of Health.

In a conversation with CCBB journalists, Luiz Henrique Mandetta also said that the program Mais Médicos would be reconsidered because, according to him, there are many points of "improvisation".

"The peculiarity of this program More Doctors is a program of improvisations, one after the other, from the day of his installation to today, and with these improvisations, he is going through a crisis of improvisations today, "he said.

The future minister also criticized the wording of the convocations. According to Mandetta, this is another point on which "we will have to review" in But Doctors.

"We have innumerable distortion situations.You have cities in which the HDI is very high, which in theory would not require foreign doctors, and you had the replacement If you have problems, then why not start [os editais] in difficult areas? "he asked.

Last Wednesday (26), the Ministry of Health extended the time limit for foreign-trained professionals to choose the cities where they will participate in the More Doctors program.