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Doctors with foreign diplomas visit health care units in eight Brazilian capitals
Criado em 30/08/13 19h24
e atualizado em 02/09/13 14h52
Por Vinícius Lisboa
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Fonte:Agência Brasil
Rio de Janeiro – Foreign and Brazilian doctors holding foreign diplomas paid the first visits to basic health care units in eight Brazilian capitals last Friday (August 30), as part of the “More Doctors” program, which started on Monday (August 26).
Some twenty practitioners went to the Family Care Clinic on Ilha do Governador, Rio, where they became familiar with the facilities and had 120 hours of classes on topics ranging from Portuguese language to legislation on Brazil’s Unified Public Health Care System (“SUS”), and prevailing diseases.
One of the course’s top priorities, according to Paulo Mendonça, Learning Coordinator of the “More Doctors” program, is to make foreign doctors aware of Brazil's unique reality: “In the state of Rio de Janeiro alone, there are cities with the best and the worst rates. This can be really hard to figure, because people are accustomed to a homogeneous distribution.” Mendonça added, “By arranging this onboarding welcome, we’re exhaustively trying to show [doctors] how diverse Brazil is. […] For those going to more extreme areas, the welcoming activities will extend beyond these 3 weeks.”
Mendonça admitted that the healthcare facility visited is above Brazilian average, but stated that the coming of the doctors will bring changes to the hospitals they will work at. “Of course the premises we're looking at are new, beautiful, and are equipped with some basic technological set. We’re in a city with six million inhabitants. Of course you want them to see something on these standards, we don't see why such a model shouldn’t be implemented elsewhere in Brazil.”
Portuguese general practitioner Miguel D’Alpuim, 70, with 39 years of experience, will work in the town of Gaspar, in the state of Santa Catarina. “We’ve been told that this is one of the best units in Brazil, and that the rest will be worse, but expectations are high. It’s a beautiful, rewarding project and I’m glad to be here. Medicine in Portugal has been brought to a standstill by the crisis. After this opportunity turned up, I packed my bags.”
Brazilian Emanoel Teixeira, 28, had been in Argentina for eight years, and came back to Brazil to work in the town of Capanema, in the state of Paraná. “I thought this was my chance to come back to my family and help solve problems in Brazil’s public health care system. I used to live near Capanema and I know the reality of the place. I know how serious the shortage of doctors is, and how difficult it is for those in need to be provided basic health care services.”
Altogether, there are 682 doctors with foreign diplomas being trained in Porto Alegre, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador, Recife and Fortaleza for the purpose of starting work on September 16. Four hundred are from Cuba, 166 from other countries, and another 116 are Brazilians who graduated from foreign universities. They will be working in a total of 519 municipalities and 16 indigenous districts.
Editors: Denise Griesinger / Lícia Marques
Translators: Fabrício Ferreira / Mayra Borges
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