By participating this Friday (23) in the inauguration of the first Brazilian factory of medications for diabetes and obesityPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva demanded that the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) speed up the approval of drug registrations. The agency is responsible for analyzing and authorizing the use of drugs throughout the national territory.
“I came here to inaugurate [a fábrica] and I left here with a demand. Our friend [Carlos] Sanches [sócio e diretor da farmacêutica EMS] “He made a demand, a provocation to the Minister of Health, the Vice President of the Republic and the President of the Republic: that Anvisa needs to move a little faster to approve the requests that are there. It is not possible that the people cannot buy medicine because Anvisa does not authorize it”, said Lula.
“This is a demand that we will try to resolve. When someone from Anvisa realizes that one of their relatives died because a medicine that could have been produced here was not produced because they did not allow it, then we will be able to make it faster and better serve the interests of our country,” concluded the president, at the end of the inauguration ceremony of the new EMS factory.
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Created in January 1999, Anvisa is an agency under a special regime, with headquarters and jurisdiction in the Federal District, but present throughout the national territory through the coordination of ports, airports, borders and customs areas. The agency’s institutional purpose is to promote the protection of the population’s health, through sanitary control of the production and consumption of products and services subject to sanitary surveillance.
The management and administration of Anvisa are carried out by a collegiate board composed of five members, indicated by the President of the Republic and appointed by him, after approval by the Federal Senate.
The agency’s current CEO, Antonio Barra Torres, began his term in April 2020, under Jair Bolsonaro’s government, and will remain in office until December of this year. Brazil Agency contacted Anvisa and is awaiting a statement regarding Lula’s speech.
