A week after have been released Fully to exercise his usual life routine, such as trips and physical activities, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva resumes the agenda of commitments outside the federal capital. This Thursday (6), for example, Lula participates, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the reopening ceremony of the emergency of the Federal Hospital of Bonsucesso, in the North Zone.
The unit is part of the emergency network of the capital and state of Rio in the care of patients in serious condition or requiring specialized care, but was closed since 2020, due to scrapping. According to the federal government, the new emergency has 50 beds in two spaces, adult and pediatric, divided by complexity levels: red, yellow and green room. The service is managed by the Unified Health System Regulation Center (SUS).
According to the Planalto Palace, the ceremony also marks the full resumption of the hospital’s total capacity, which went from 412 to 423 beds available to the population. In October 2024, before the administration of the Conceição Hospital Group (GHC), 218 beds were closed. The image diagnostic center will also be reactivated, with the provision of ultrasound examinations and a new high precision X-ray equipment.
The network of federal hospitals in Rio de Janeiro is experiencing a chronic crisis of scrapping and serious management problems over the last few years. In the latest attempt to face the problem, the Ministry of Health opted for an administrative decentralization strategy of these hospitals. This is the case of the federal hospital of Bonsucesso, where Lula will, which It was managed by the Hospital Conceição (GHC) group) in October last year.
The Federal Hospital of Andaraí, also in the North Zone, will be administered by the Rio de Janeiro City Hall. The restructuring program also involves the State Servants Hospital (HSE), in the process of transferring to the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), becoming a University Hospital and managed by the Brazilian Hospital Services Company (EBSERH) , a state -owned company linked to the Ministry of Health.
Already on Friday (7), Lula embarks to the small municipality of Paramirim, in the interior of Bahia. There, he participates in the Água for all ceremony, programming federal that involves the construction of cisterns and other drinking water storage infrastructures and guarantee of water safety of the population. In the commitment, the president should be accompanied by Governor Jerônimo Rodrigues and Ministers Rui Costa (House Civil), Waldez Góes (Integration and Regional Development), Jader Filho (cities) and Sidônio Palmeira (Social Communication), according to the Planalto Palace. .
