More than five thousand Brazilian municipalities should receive professionals from the Doctors for Brazil program. The information is from the secretary of Primary Health Care of the Ministry of Health, Raphael Câmara, who gave an interview to the program A Voz do Brasil this Monday (18).
According to the Chamber, there will be 4,600 doctors admitted this year. The first 529 signed contracts today. These doctors will be directed to the most vulnerable municipalities. The secretary also said that the program should remedy a historic debt in Brazil, as it is the first time that the federal government has provided doctors to several locations.
The 26 indigenous districts are among the priorities of the new program. Câmara highlights that the doctor who opts for these places will receive an additional fee. “The doctor who decides to go to an indigenous district will receive about R$ 6 thousand more”, he said.
Program professionals will be allocated exclusively in primary care. “We know that strong primary care will be able to prevent many cases from going to specialized care, that is, hospitals and UPAs [Unidades de Pronto Atendimento]”. According to the secretary, when allocating primary care resources, the government will be optimizing the resources of the Unified Health System (SUS).
According to the secretary, the new program brings the CLT contract as a contractual modality and has “all labor rights” for the participants, in addition to the possibility of receiving salaries of up to R$ 30 thousand.
For Chamber, the new program brings a state career so that doctors can settle in the function. “We also need this doctor, he stays in that municipality, getting to know the population better and thus better meeting the population’s desires.”
