The Secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, doctor Mozart Sales, defended the “Mais Medical” Health Promotion Program in collaboration with Cuba and described as “unfair” the sanction imposed on the eve by the United States government, in a publication on their social networks.
“That unfair sanction does not eliminate my certainty that” MAIS Doctors “is a program that defends life and represents the essence of its (single Brazilian health system), the largest public health system in the world – universal, comprehensive and free,” he wrote In your Instagram account.
In addition, he commented that the collaboration by Cuban doctors occurred through a program with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and that foreign professionals provided that service “in 58 other countries of different political-ideological orientations”.
And declared that it was that cooperation of “Brazilian, Cuban and other nationalities” professionals that allowed “offering basic health care” to those who “needed it more” and reduced “countless pain, sufferings and deaths.”
Brazilian program object of US sanctions has 2659 Cuban doctors
His statement adds to that of the Minister of Health of Brazil, Alexandre Padilha, who condemned the sanctions imposed by the US government against the two Brazilians linked to this health program created during the mandate of President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016).
In his social networks, Padilha described the measure as an “unjustifiable attack” to an initiative that “saves lives.”
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced on the eve of the revocation of the visas of the current Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Mozart Sales, and the former Brazilian government official Alberto Kleiman.
In a statement, Rubio described the “Mais Medical” program as “an inconceivable diplomatic blow”, in reference to the hiring of Cuban doctors to cover vacancies in the single Brazilian health system (SUS) in remote and difficult access premises.
The United States Government has taken a series of reprisals against Brazil for the coup dictation facing ex -president Jair Bolsonaro, leader of the Brazilian ultra -right and ally of the US President, Donald Trump.
In addition to imposing an additional 50 % tariff on some of the main Brazilian products, he withdrew the visa to members of the Supreme Court of Justice and sanctioned the magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, an instructor judge in the case against the former president for coupism.
