President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that the planned changes to Brazilian federal hospitals will give them a standard of excellence, making them a reference to other countries. For this, it is essential to ensure that they will not be used with political motivations, said the president.
“Who has to send in hospitals are health experts,” said Lula on Thursday (6) in Rio de Janeiro, during a reopening ceremony of some areas of the federal hospital of Bonsucesso that had been closed for five years.
In a speech, the president recalled the difficulties he had to resume the services of the hospital, after the federal government decided to pass his administration to the Hospital Conceição group (GHC). At the time, the measure was criticized by entities such as the Union of Health, Work, Welfare and Social Assistance Workers in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
The category even made a movement that prevented the entry into the new managers in the hospital. “A lot of people didn’t want us to make a democratic intervention to manage it. Many people did not want us to make the agreement with the city to manage it. But no one owns hospital. Neither doctor, no nurse, nor trade unionists are home to the hospital, ”said the president.
Lula pointed out that it is necessary to transform federal hospitals through the dignity, decency and respect provided by the service offered by the population. “Where they [hospitais federais] There are excellence and reference anywhere in the world. That’s what we’re going to do here in this hospital that was abandoned, ”added the president, remembering that the hospital caught fire five years ago.
“To this day he has not been recovered, running out of magnetic resonance, tomography and other things [necessárias] to do specialized exams. From now on, [o hospital] There will be all the images that people need, to be treated with respect. Let’s recover the part that is burned and we will do an image center so that the people are entitled to take the exams, ”he added.
A total of R $ 263 million in investments from the Ministry of Health aimed at restructuring the federal hospitals of the country.
