Pediatric Orthopedist with a specialization at the University of Harvard, United States, the federal deputy Luiz Henrique Mandetta (DEM-MS), the minister of Health, has visited the Incor on the morning of December 13th, followed by the participation of a long debate on FMUSP. The meeting, initiated around 10h30 a.m., lasted about four hours and counted on the intense participation of the present party.
After a breaking the protocol by requesting each of the attenders to nominally present themselves, the future minister presented his political platform to the authorities, and the industry’s executives and representatives of the health sector, who crowded the Congregation Room at FMUSP. By defending the SUS, Mandetta stated the Ministry of Health should be reorganized to optimize resources for assistance. “Let those who condemn the SUS to call forth a new constitutional process, convince and inscribe a new Letter, because the Constitution is there and we shall defend it to the last drop. I won’t give up, I will fight for the SUS. I will be a minister of the Basic Care”, he said.
For Mandetta, it is “inadmissible” that the numbers of child and maternal mortality and the rates of syphilis in the country have evolved so negatively. “It is inadmissible that we have an army of community agents from SUS and we don’t capacitate them to be transforming agents of the health-disease cycle. They come into the houses with a badge and in the name of health and we don’t use them”, he stated.
“And what about the cracolândia epidemic? And the drastic fall on vaccine coverage? We don’t have the right to think this is not our concern. Each one of those problems involves each one of us”, emphasized Madetta.
The director of FMUSP, Prof. Dr. Tarcisio Eloy Pessoa de Barros Filho, reminded the debate was “the star of a dialogue” and urged those present to transform their demands in proposals and feasible projects, in order to contribute to the betterment of the Brazilian health system. “This is a paradoxical day, due to the wake of Prof. Vicente Amato Netto, whose dedication was great for the health cause, and is also a day of great pride for having here the presence of a minister of health committed to the same cause”, said the director.
Besides the FMUSP director, other participants of the debate table were the São Paulo State Secretary for the Rights of the Person with Disability, Prof. Dr. Linamara Rizzo Battistella, the president of the Health Coalition Institute and former director of FMUSP, Prof. Dr. Giovanni Guido Cerri, and José Luis Gomes do Amaral, president of the Paulist Medical Association (APM).
Linamara congratulated the initiative of the new minister to defend the Basic Care and called for a reduction in the tax burden of the providers who act in the transfer of technology, in order to revert more resources for the formation and quality of products for the assistance. “His exposition was brilliant and I hope he can take his determination to the communication system of the Ministry”, said the professor.
