“More Doctors” program with 3,016 practitioners enrolled in new stage

Criado em 03/09/13 16h39 e atualizado em 03/09/13 16h46
Por Yara Aquino Edição:s Fonte:Agência Brasil

Brasília – A total of 3,016 practitioners are enrolled in the second stage of the More Doctors program. Altogether, 1,414 professionals hold Brazilian diplomas, and 1,602 have graduated from foreign universities.

The doctors will work in 514 cities and 25 indigenous districts that have recently adopted the program. This raises the number of doctors required to 16,625. Some of the positions will be filled by professionals from the first stage.

Minister of Health Alexandre Padilha said that, after the first stages of the program are launched, other strategies will be taken into account for engaging more doctors from other countries and meeting the needs of the municipalities. “The enrollment process and the episode involving the Brazilian doctors arriving yesterday [when they did not sign in to start work], only make it clearer how important it is for us to have different strategies for bringing doctors from other countries. The number we have today is not enough, especially if our purpose is to meet the needs of the country’s health care at its basic level.”

Out of the 3,016 doctors enrolled in the second month of the evaluation stage of the program, 951 practitioners have thoroughly registered and are ready to choose the municipalities where they will practice. Professionals graduated from Brazilian universities and those with locally valid diplomas must make this decision by September 4. Practitioners who hold a foreign degree must wait until the available positions are announced, on September 13.

In the first stage of the program there were 18,450 doctors enrolled, of which only 1,096 Brazilians and 282 foreigners have confirmed their participation. The large number of professionals enrolled aroused suspicions that doctors who oppose the program were trying to hamper the process. The Ministry of Health called on the Federal Police to investigate.

Editors: Denise Griesinger / Lícia Marques
Translators: Fabrício Ferreira

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